Government control of information
What Government control of information means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Attempts to control reportage on issues of national security, operating through D-notices, the Official Secrets Act, and briefings.
Authorities restricted reporting through the Defence of the Realm Act and official press censorship enforced by the Press Bureau.
Topics that use Government control of information
- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 4 Trench warfare on the Western Front, 1914–18 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 39.2: Mass media and social change in Britain, 1882–2004 - 4 The Thatcher governments and the media, 1979–90 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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