Your Britain - Fight for it Now (education)
A ruined classroom with a broken slate reading 'education 193-' frames a bright modern school where children sit at desks, under the words 'Your Britain' and 'Fight for it now'. The tell is the before-and-after contrast and the possessive 'Your', which ties a welfare ideal to the viewer's personal stake in the war.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.), designed by P.R.2. (War Office); artist Abram Games; printed by Multi Machine Plates Ltd., London
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Army Bureau of Current Affairs / War Office P.R.2; artist Abram Games, 1942. U.S. National Archives (NAID 44267455).
Text on the object
YOUR BRITAIN FIGHT FOR IT NOW education 193[illegible] A school in Cambridge- shire where village children are learning to grow up in healthful surroundings. This build- ing is characteristic of the best developments in welfare and education. ISSUED BY A.B.C.A. DESIGNED BY P.R.2. 69 A. GAMES. '42 PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD., LONDON, E.C.4
