Propaganda in the United Kingdom

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Chapters: British propaganda films, British propagandists, RMS Lusitania, Arnold Bennett, Lord Haw-Haw, Recruitment to the British Army during the First World War, British propaganda during World War II, John Brown & Company, SM U-20, His Last Bow, H. Montagu Allan, Charles Masterman, Keep Calm and Carry On, Oliver Percy Bernard, Ogden H. Hammond, Wellington House, Theodate Pope Riddle, Ralph Murray, Miss Grant Goes to the Door, Pier 54, Barbara McDermott, Two Minutes Hate, Walther Schwieger, FRANK, Clockwork Orange, Audrey Lawson-Johnston, The Sinking of the Lusitania, They Flew Alone, Arabic pledge, Operation Mass Appeal. Excerpt: RMS Lusitania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland which entered service with the Cunard Line on 26 August 1907. She was named after the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which is part of present day Portugal. During World War I as Germany waged submarine warfare against Britain, the ship was identified and torpedoed by a German U-boat U-20 on 7 May 1915 and sank in eighteen minutes. It went down eleven miles (19 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought. Lusitania was constructed as part of the competition between Cunard and other shipping lines, principally from Germany, for the trans-Atlantic passenger trade. Whichever company had the fastest and most luxurious ships had a commercial advantage: Lusitania and her sister Mauretania together provided a regular express service between Britain and America until the intervention of World War I, during which Lusitania was sunk. The two ships both held the Blue Riband speed record for a transatlantic crossing at different times in their careers. Mauretania was generally slightly faster of the two and continued to hold the record after the war until 1929. The ships were the first large liners to use cutting-edge Parsons' turbine propulsion which technological leap partly accounted for their 22 years period retaining the speed record, while producing less noise and vibration on board ship and reducing fuel consumption. The ships were the largest ever built at the time they were constructed and had 50% greater passenger space than their nearest rival, allowing unprecedented luxury for all three classes of passenger. The ship was designed so that it might readily be converted to an auxiliar