'Dig for Victory' (British Ministry of Agriculture poster, child with spade)
A small child in a white sun hat, seen from behind, shoulders a hoe and drags a spade towards the word 'VICTORY'. The slogan equates digging a garden with winning the war, with the abstract word 'Victory' standing in for the testable claim about food supply.
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (printed for H.M. Stationery Office by H. Manly & Son Ltd; IWM Art.IWM PST 0696)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Chamberlain Government
- Leader
- Neville Chamberlain
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Imperial War Museums (scan via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; PD-UKGov and PD-old per Wikimedia Commons)
Mary Tunbridge (design, per the imprint); Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (sponsor); H. Manly & Son Ltd (printer); Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Imperial War Museums, Art.IWM PST 0696; scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
DIG FOR VICTORY [imprint, lower left:] PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY H. MANLY & SON LTD. 51-2421 [imprint, lower right:] ADAPTED FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING DESIGN OF MARY TUNBRIDGE
Read from the committed image.
