| Shrnutí: | <p>Propaganda of the First World War has been a persistent area of interest for historians. The national focus of much of the historiography of the war has, however, left significant gaps in understanding. This thesis examines an important area of elision: propaganda between Britain and the settler Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Newfoundland, which this thesis terms ‘Greater British Propaganda.’</p>
<p>British and Dominion propaganda campaigns during the war operated in a distinct cultural space and context. Greater British propaganda is not simply a grouping of several distinct national campaigns, but a collaborative, transnational, co-creative process. It was a product of the particular cultural, political, social, and operational dynamics of Greater Britain, under the pressures of war. These dynamics formed a distinct type of cultural interaction, utilising a shared cultural language, and forged through particular dynamics of ‘co-creation,’ which encompassed collaboration, exchange, adaptation, and competition. Understanding the interaction of British and Dominion propaganda efforts during the war in this way reveals aspects that have gone ignored, or which make little sense, when viewed through a national – or colonial nationalist – lens.</p>
<p>This thesis uses the relationship between Britain and New Zealand to reveal these wider dynamics, and is arranged in six case studies, showing different aspects of propaganda creation and exchange. By exploring ‘Greater British propaganda’ as a distinct topic, and the dynamics of ‘co- creation’ within it, this thesis redresses the limitations of historiography of both wartime propaganda, and colonial nationalist histories of the war. The community of Britain and the Dominions was a real historical community with particular dynamics, worthy of distinct historiographical attention. Instead of treating Greater Britain as just an idea, this thesis contributes to scholarship that rightly sees it as an important, lived cultural, social, economic, and political community.</p>
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