Country
United Kingdom propaganda in the collection
288 objects, listed by date.
Illustration, not an archive object
United KingdomThe Examiner, No. 608, 22 August 1819, 'Disturbances at Manchester' (Peterloo)
United KingdomPunch, 'Laurels at Ningpo' column on the First Opium War, 1842Content note
United Kingdom"The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger" (Punch, 1857)
United KingdomPunch, 'The Jamaica Question' (Tenniel), 23 December 1865Content note
United KingdomIllustrated London News, 'The Zulu War: Defenders of Rorke's Drift', 1 March 1879Content note
United KingdomThe Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon
United KingdomThe Rhodes Colossus: striding from Cape Town to Cairo (Punch, 10 December 1892)
United KingdomPears' Soap: "The first step towards lightening the White Man's Burden" (Cosmopolitan advertisement, 1899)
United KingdomIllustrated London News, 'The War Reviewed' and 'Our Note Book', 26 May 1900 (p. 698)
United KingdomThe Speaker, 'The Carnival of Mafeking', 2 June 1900 (p. 241)Content note
United KingdomMany Happy Returns - of the Gold to the Rightful Owners (Tom Browne, The Sketch)
United KingdomThe Speaker, front page 'The Week', 22 June 1901: Hobhouse report and 'methods of barbarism'Content note
United KingdomNsala of Wala, with his daughter's hand and foot (1904)Content note
United KingdomPrivate Property: No Admittance to Philanthropists (Congo State), F. C. Gould
United Kingdom"In the Rubber Coils" (Punch, 1906)Content note
United KingdomSinn Féin 'Éire' propaganda stamps (pair, 1907)
United KingdomThis is 'the house' that man built (anti-suffrage postcard, about 1908)Content note
United KingdomTorturing Women in Prison. Vote Against the Government
United Kingdom'Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.' Lord Kitchener postcard (about 1914)
United KingdomThe Illustrated War News, 2 September 1914: "The Oxford of Belgium burnt by the German 'Huns'" (Louvain)Content note
United KingdomThe Illustrated War News, 7 October 1914: "The Spy at Work", the innocent landscape "decoded"Content note
United Kingdom"I hear they want more Bovril. My place is at the front" (Bovril poster, 1915)
United Kingdom3,000,000 Belgians are destitute in Belgium (Hassall)
United KingdomCold-Blooded Murder! Remember Germany's Crowning Infamy
United KingdomDaddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?
United KingdomThe Empire Needs Men! The Overseas States All Answer the Call
United KingdomIreland & Poland (recruiting appeal quoting the Rev. William P. Burke)
United KingdomMr. John Dillon, M.P., on recruiting in Ireland. Join an Irish regiment to-day
United KingdomThe Prime Minister's Advice to the Young Unmarried Men and Pledge to Married Men
United KingdomRemember Belgium — Enlist To-Day
United KingdomThe "Scrap of Paper": Signatures and Seals of the 1839 Treaty, Enlist To-Day
United KingdomThe Serbian Relief Fund: Begs Aid for Our Brave Ally (1d charity stamp)
United KingdomTake Up the Sword of Justice. Join Now
United KingdomWinox anti-German poster stamps: Zeppelin, Edith Cavell, "Kultur", Lusitania (Britain, 1915)
United KingdomHave You Any Women-Folk Worth Defending? Remember the Women of Belgium. Join To-Day
United KingdomLet There Not Be a Man or a Woman Among Us Who... (The Prime Minister, May 4th 1915)
United KingdomThe Woman's Dreadnought, 15 May 1915, p. 246: "Let Us Not Be Cowards" and "Whose Fiendish Devices?"Content note
United KingdomProclamation of the Irish Republic (Poblacht na hÉireann), Easter Rising
United KingdomIrish War News, Vol. 1 No. 1, Dublin, 25 April 1916Content note
United KingdomMecca, the Pilgrims' Way now made safe by the Arabs (The Graphic, 1 July 1916)
United KingdomDie erste Million (The First Million), British balloon leaflet A.P. 74![Rumania's Day, poster for the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations, London, [1918]](../../images/rumanias-day-central-committee-1918-640.jpg)
United KingdomRumania's Day, poster for the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations, London, [1918]Content note
United KingdomIs Ireland a part of England? Vote for Sinn Fein (Sinn Féin publicity sheet, 1918 general election)
United KingdomIreland's Solemn League and Covenant: A National Pledge (anti-conscription, 1918)
United KingdomIrish Bulletin, Vol. 3 No. 24, 5 October 1920: 'Keep Up the Pressure'Content note
United KingdomLondon's Underground to Wembley (British Empire Exhibition poster)
United Kingdom"Jungles Today, Gold Mines Tomorrow" (Empire Marketing Board, 1926)Content note
United KingdomThe British Worker, No. 1, front page (London, 5 May 1926): TUC official strike news bulletin
United KingdomThe British Gazette, No. 2, 6 May 1926 (government strike newspaper)
United KingdomThe Evening News (London), 7 May 1926, fourth day of the General Strike (strike-time single sheet)
United KingdomBuy Empire Every Day: First Oranges from South Africa (Empire Marketing Board)
United Kingdom"The Good Shopper" (Empire Marketing Board)
United KingdomAre You One of These? 80 Absentees - 80 Tons Lost or One Tank Less (Ssh - Don't Wake Him)Content note
United Kingdom'Askari wetu washinda Wajapani / Smash the Japs!' (British poster for East Africa)Content note
United Kingdom'ATS: Cook for the Troops' (British Auxiliary Territorial Service poster)
United KingdomATS in the Bakeries
United KingdomBattle for Fuel: Exhibition on How to Save Fuel - a coal mine comes to town (Lewis's)
United KingdomBattle for Fuel: Use Less Coal & Coke
United KingdomBattle! How WE are helping in the Battle
United KingdomBattle! How WE are helping in the Battle: Hurricanes must have Zinc and Sulphuric Acid
United KingdomPlease Bring Your Books Here - National Book Recovery and Salvage Appeal, Official Depot
United KingdomAre You a Skilled Artisan Desiring Promotion to the Rank of Acting Armament Staff Serjeant?
United KingdomBritain has sent to Russia ... Our Products Fight on Russian Fronts!
United KingdomBritain's Mechanised Army on the March: Keep Going with War Savings
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler - Britain Has a Far More Powerful Fleet Than the Enemy
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler - Britain is Building 30,000 Tanks to Destroy Her Enemies
United KingdomClean Rags - Dirty Rags - All Are Wanted!
United KingdomA Clear Plate Means a Clear Conscience: Don't Take More Than You Can Eat
United KingdomClouds Can Help (Air Diagram No. 1293-2/40)
United Kingdom'Convoy your country to victory: buy Defence Bonds' (British National Savings poster)
United KingdomCrack for Victory: Your palm kernels when cracked help to feed the Empire's fighting menContent note
United Kingdom'Dig for Victory' (British Ministry of Agriculture poster, child with spade)
United KingdomDon't Waste Kitchen Scraps: The Nation Needs Them Now
United KingdomEat Greens for Health - Feed Right to Feel Right
United KingdomElectrical Work is War Work
United KingdomEvery Rivet a Bullet - Speed the Ships
United KingdomFood is a munition of war: don't waste it
United KingdomFront-Line Breakdowns Can Lose Battles - That's Why Our Workmanship Counts
United KingdomOfficial Instructions Issued by the Ministry of Home Security - Gas Attack
United KingdomGuard Against VD: Venereal Disease
United KingdomHelp Britain Finish the Job!
United KingdomHe's in the Silent Service - Are You?
United KingdomOur High Explosives are Beating the U-Boats
United Kingdom'My Struggle!' by Adolf Hitler, the sculptor (British poster in Arabic)Content note
United KingdomHow Your Salvage Helps to Make a Rescue Launch
United KingdomI am on War Work, Do Not Hinder Me! Send Your Greetings by Letter
United KingdomI Need Your Rags
United KingdomKeep Calm and Carry On
United KingdomKeep It Dark: Careless Talk Costs Lives
United Kingdom'Keep it under your hat!' Careless Talk Costs Lives
United KingdomLend a Hand on the Land
United KingdomLend a Hand With War Savings
United Kingdom'Let 'em all come: Home Defence Battalions, men 41-55' (British Army recruiting poster)
United KingdomNext Winter's Milk Supply for Children and Nursing Mothers Depends on This Season's Hay: Make Hay While the Sun Shines
United KingdomMosquito Bulletin No. 1: Our Target is their Success
United KingdomMothers let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health (Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme)
United Kingdom"Now Up At Our Works..." He Talked... ...This Happened - Careless Talk Costs Lives
United KingdomOrder it now! Store Fuel for Next Winter
United KingdomPlan and Grow for Winter: Summer Glut Leaves Winter Short, Take Warning Now and Don't Get Caught
United KingdomPut your trust in the Navy & your money in Savings Certificates
United KingdomRadiolocation - Train with the Army or with the A.T.S.
United KingdomReinforce Children's Clothes: They Will Last Twice as Long
United KingdomA Savings Group is a Victory Group
United KingdomTake a Pride in Being Fighting Fit
United Kingdom3,000 Children Die From it Every Year
United KingdomAccidents with Ammunition
United KingdomAction Stations: The A.T.S. Go to War - Salute Them with War Savings
United KingdomAddress Your Letters Plainly
United KingdomLetters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy (Airgraphs get priority)
United KingdomArmy Exhibition: Come and see the equipment of a Division
United KingdomATS as Signal Operators
United KingdomATS at the Wheel
United KingdomATS - Be Active - Be Useful
United KingdomATS Carry the Messages
United KingdomA.T.S.: For Information Ask at Any Army or A.T.S. Recruiting Centre or at the Nearest Employment Exchange
United KingdomEvery Member of the ATS Learns a Job That Will Help Her to Earn Her Living in the Post-War World
United KingdomBritain's New Airborne Army Goes into Action in Europe - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBeware: Never give away the movements of H.M. Ships
United KingdomBeware the Squander Bug
United KingdomBlood donors are needed urgently to save lives (Emergency Blood Transfusion Service)
United KingdomBlood Donors Now - 30 Minutes of Your Time, a Lifetime to Somebody Else
United KingdomBlood Donors Wanted - Your Blood Can Save the Life of Someone...Somewhere
United KingdomBones Help to Fire the Guns - Put Out More Bones and Save More Ships
United KingdomBristles Are Scarce, Brushes Are Precious (Ministry of Supply No. 114)
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler - Britain's Air Force is Now Stronger than Hitler's
United KingdomBritish Weapons to Defeat Hitler: More and More Guns Come Daily from the British Factories
United KingdomCamouflage Nets: Baffle the Hun
United KingdomCan I Do Without It? Less Shopping Means More Shipping!
United KingdomCarry Your Identity Card Always
United KingdomChoose for Victory - Try a V Dish To-Day
United KingdomCut It Out and Lend What You Save Through War Savings
United KingdomCut the last three inches of your loaf this way
United KingdomDiphtheria is deadly - Immunisation is the safeguard
United KingdomDiphtheria is one of the most deadly children's diseases
United KingdomDiphtheria Causes Unnecessary Suffering and Anxiety
United KingdomDomestic Front: Make-Do and Mend (Household & Clothes Economy Exhibition)
United KingdomDon't Burn Up the Miles: it burns up your tyres
United KingdomFarmers All Over the Country Need All the Help Available to Gather This Year's Vital Harvest - Free Ships for the Second Front
United KingdomField-Marshal 'Potato Pete'
United KingdomFight the Moth - It's the moth grub that does the damage
United KingdomFrom 1 to 5 Years Is the Vital Period
United KingdomThe Germs of this Disease are Everywhere
United KingdomGive 'Em Both Barrels
United KingdomGoing Ashore? Keep what you know to yourself (English, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, French)
United KingdomGood Arc Welders Watch - Good Welds Help Win the War!
United KingdomEvery Available Piece of Land Must Be Cultivated - Grow Your Own Food - Supply Your Own Cookhouse![Grow Your Own Food [2]](../../images/uk-grow-your-own-food-hmso-1939-640.jpg)
United KingdomGrow Your Own Food [2]![Grow Your Own Food [1]](../../images/uk-grow-your-own-food-zero-1939-640.jpg)
United KingdomGrow Your Own Food [1]
United KingdomA Gun For Every Job - Buy War Savings - Hit the Target
United KingdomHe Needs Our 'Ammo' to Shoot Down Huns
United KingdomHelp Britain Finish the Job!
United KingdomHelp the City Children - making a new home for Evacuees is a National Service
United KingdomIf you can't go to the factory help the neighbour who can
United KingdomHis Rifle Will Fire - Will Mine?
United KingdomHow Good Drivers Save Their Tyres and Serve Their Country
United KingdomHow to Get Free Immunisation
United KingdomHow to Tackle a Fire Bomb
United KingdomI Need Bones for Explosives
United KingdomI Need Your Scrap Metal
United KingdomI'm Fighting Food Says Potato Pete
United KingdomI'm Looking for You - Fever - Malaria
United KingdomImmunisation Is the Only Safeguard
United KingdomImmunisation Is Simple, Safe & Free
United KingdomIs Your Child Protected?
United KingdomJoin the Wrens: and free a man for the fleet (Women's Royal Naval Service)
United KingdomWomen's Royal Naval Service - Join the Wrens
United KingdomKeep a Guard on What You Say..
United KingdomKeep It Up: Save and Lend Through the Post Office Savings Bank and Trustee Savings Banks
United KingdomLack of Vitamins Can Strangle His Health
United KingdomLake Transport in AfricaContent note
United KingdomLearning to be Doctors in FijiContent note
United Kingdom'lend a hand on the land'
United KingdomLend to Defend His Right to be Free - Buy National Savings Certificates
United KingdomLetters for the Forces & Merchant Navy: airgraphs are the cheapest form of air communication
United KingdomLetters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond
United KingdomMightier Yet! Britain's Mechanised Army grows stronger every day
United KingdomMinistry of Supply - Service Speakers
United Kingdom'More Ships - Come on!' War Savings are Warships
United KingdomNational Book Recovery and Salvage Appeal: Take your unwanted Books to the Receiving Depot
United Kingdom'National Day of Prayer: Put your trust in God, as I do' (His Majesty the King)
United KingdomNational Savings for Victory (nest of eggs with savings stamps)
United KingdomNever Scrape or Bump the Kerb
United KingdomNo Child, However Good its Health and Home, is Safe
United KingdomNo Spares - No 'Ammo
United KingdomNow That Our Men Have Landed on Enemy Soil Surely No One Will Endanger Their Supply of Vital Munitions by Taking Unnecessary Journeys
United KingdomO God Our Help... We lift our living nation a single sword to thee
United KingdomPut Out Your Old Hot Water Bottle for Salvage
United KingdomParaffin Economy: Use Less and Waste None
United KingdomPersonal Cleanliness
United KingdomPlan and Grow for Winter: Winter Fruits from Overseas Have Now to be Replaced by These
United KingdomPlan and Grow for Winter: Planned Crops for Garden Wealth, Assure the Family's Winter Health
United KingdomPost Office Telegraphists at War Work - Telegraph Less
United KingdomPotatoes - the Nation's Iron Ration (Make Sure of a Full Plate)
United KingdomPrivate Scrap builds a bomber (exhibition)
United KingdomPut Out More Salvage and Save More Shipping
United KingdomPut Out Your Old Motor Tyre for Salvage
United KingdomPut Out Your Old Rubber Boots for Salvage
United KingdomPut Out Your Waste Rubber for Salvage
United KingdomPut Your Share Out Into War Savings and Share in Victory
United KingdomRags Make Blankets
United KingdomRags Make Machine Wipers
United KingdomRags Make Navy Charts
United KingdomRags Make Uniforms
United Kingdom"Raise the Standard" of War Savings
United KingdomRelease More Coal for the War Drive
United KingdomShell Containers from Waste Paper: Put Out More Waste Paper, It Will Save More Shipping
United KingdomAre You Sufficiently Skilled in Your Trade to Earn a Higher Trade Rate?
United KingdomThank You, says the soldier: Caring for Evacuees is a National Service
United KingdomGive thanks to the everyday heroes of Britain's Merchant Navy
United KingdomOn the Road to Recovery - Thanks to You Blood Donor
United KingdomWork for a Record Harvest: Only by frequent hoeing can weeds be destroyed
United KingdomVentilate Your Quarters
United KingdomYou Know More Than Other People
United KingdomYour Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory
United Kingdom'Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory' (British Ministry of Information poster)
United KingdomYour Tin makes ENGINE PARTS for army lorries: Thank you Nigeria!Content note
United KingdomA British Cruiser Ramming an Italian Submarine in the Mediterranean - Back Them Up!
United Kingdom'Better pot-luck with Churchill today than humble pie under Hitler tomorrow' (British Ministry of Food poster)Content note
United KingdomCareless Talk Costs Lives: "...strictly between these four walls!"
United KingdomCheck Their Identity by the A.B. 64: Soldiers and A.T.S.
United Kingdom'Dig for Victory' banner across the Royal Exchange, London, used as a Ministry of Information poster site
United KingdomDo You Know the Recognition Signal?
United KingdomFall in the fire-bomb fighters! (Herbert Morrison)
United KingdomHydraulics - Safety First (Air Diagram 1298)
United KingdomTaxying - The Necessity for Good Look-Out
United KingdomIn the Mediterranean, British Submarines Have Caused Great Havoc to Axis Shipping - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBeware of the Hun in the Sun
United KingdomIs he killing time ... or killing Nazis - Spares may decide
United Kingdom"Let Us Go Forward Together" (Churchill photograph poster)
United Kingdom"Never Was So Much Owed by So Many to So Few" (The Prime Minister)
United KingdomSafety Height for Bombing (Air Diagram No. 1295)
United KingdomLiberté (Belgian flag, 'Unity of Strength' design)
United KingdomWolkiger Beobachter, Luftpost-Ausgabe, 1. Jahrgang Nr. 7 (Cloudy Observer, air-mail edition, front page)Content note
United Kingdom'A stitch in time saves coupons' (British Board of Trade clothes-rationing poster)
United KingdomAircraft of the R.A.F., Some Famous Types - II
United KingdomBeware Mushroomed Tools
United KingdomEcco i vostri alleati (Here Are Your Allies): British propaganda booklet for ItalyContent note
United Kingdom'Feeding 45 Millions: Food Convoy' (British Ministry of Information poster)
United KingdomFreedom Shall Prevail!
United KingdomHow to Make Your Household Linens Last Longer
United KingdomSheer Carelessness
United KingdomAircraft of the R.A.F.: Some Famous Types - I
United KingdomThe bombing in daylight of the power station at Knapsack, Germany, by the Royal Air Force - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBritish Field-Guns Smash a German Tank Attack at Point-Blank Range in Libya - Back Them Up!
United KingdomBack Them Up! (capture of U 570 by a Lockheed Hudson)
United KingdomPause when you go out into the dark to let your eyes get used to the Black-out
United KingdomRetailers' Pooled Delivery Service
United KingdomThe Straggler Invites Attack
United KingdomLuftpost No. 8, 9 July 1941: "Amerikanische Truppen in Island!" and "Drei Mächte - ein Kriegsziel!"Content note
United KingdomLuftpost No. 16, 2 September 1941: "Es gibt kein Zurück!" and "Der Weg der Pimpfe"Content note
United KingdomArmoured Cars are Battle Spearhead
United KingdomAve Caesar! Morituri te salutant (British leaflet to Italy)Content note
United KingdomBattle for Fuel: Turn It Down When You Are Warm (Use Less Gas)
United Kingdom'A Grã-Bretanha, Defensora da Liberdade' (British poster in Portuguese)
United KingdomFuel Economy in the Foundry - Hints to Foremen for Saving Fuel - Save Fuel for Battle!
United KingdomNotice: Rags, Rope and String Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse
United KingdomAccidents are Bottlenecks - Prevent Them
United KingdomAirborne Forces
United KingdomBack Them Up! (Stirling bombers raid Lübeck)
United KingdomBravo! British Shipyards
United KingdomThe Man Who Wasted Power! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomIt Does Matter: Country Pays For It - Don't Waste Here the Fuel You Save at Home!
United KingdomDon't Waste Here the Fuel You Save at Home
United KingdomFence or guard all openings
United KingdomHeadache for Hitler: It Takes More Than 12 Tons of Coal to Make This Torpedo
United KingdomThe Man Who Wasted Gas! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomThe Man Who Wasted Gas! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomThe Man Who Would Not Close the Doors - Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomA Message for Us!
United KingdomNotice: Waste Rubber Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse
United KingdomOutcrop Workers! A Reserve of Coal is as Important as a Reserve of Shells
United KingdomSwitch Off - Stop It - Turn Off - Save Fuel for Battle!
United KingdomPrivate Scrap Goes to the Front: A Salvage Exhibition at Charing Cross Underground Station
United KingdomFor You to Produce Cold Someone Must Burn Fuel - Save Fuel for Battle!
United KingdomHow You Can Save Fuel in the Foundry - Ten Rules for the Foundry Man
United KingdomNotice: Waste Paper and Cardboard Must Not Be Destroyed, Thrown Away or Mixed With Refuse
United KingdomThe Worker Who Left the Lights On! Don't Be Fuel-ish
United KingdomHimmler-head forgery of the 6-pfennig Deutsches Reich stamp
United KingdomSepsis: Get First Aid
United KingdomAsking For It
United Kingdom'Wer hatte recht?' ('Who was right?') (Allied leaflet to Germany)
United KingdomForged Winterhilfswerk stamp booklet (British black propaganda for Germany)Content note![Back the Boys with War Savings: Save at least a Bob in the Pound every Pay Day [3]](../../images/back-the-boys-bob-in-the-pound-3-1944-640.jpg)
United KingdomBack the Boys with War Savings: Save at least a Bob in the Pound every Pay Day [3]
United KingdomBack the Boys with War Savings: Save at least a Bob in the Pound every Pay Day
United KingdomBack the Boys with War Savings: Save at Least a Bob in the Pound Every Pay Day (bomb loading)
United KingdomNachrichten für die Truppe, No. 358, 9 April 1945
United Kingdom'#RussiaIsolated' Foreign & Commonwealth Office infographic
United KingdomAI-generated image of Donald Trump being arrested