Often the family and the home is portrayed, military processions, life in the trenches, spectacular explosions all feature. Post cards were immensely popular, inexpensive to buy and to send, available to everyone and endlessly creative in the message they conveyed. Every human emotion is reflected in the postcards of World War 1 and it is for this reason that they remain important cultural artifacts

The first British daily newspaper to achieve mass circulation was the Daily Mail which first appeared in 1896, Owned by the Canadian born Alfred Harmsworth who later became Lord Northcliffe. The importance of Press Barons such as Northcliffe to the British war effort reached its logical conclusion in 1918 when Northcliffe was appointed to the new post of Director of Propaganda in Enemy Countries.