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title: Lady Godiva Rides Again Through Coventry's Streets
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lady-godiva-rides-again-through-coventrys-streets-berryman-1940/
description: A cloaked female figure labelled CIVILIZATION sits on a horse, hiding her face, above a ruined cathedral with a surviving spire.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** A cartoon of a veiled female figure labelled Civilization on a horse above the smoking ruins of Coventry, as published in 1940. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Lady Godiva Rides Again Through Coventry's Streets, 1940 US cartoon: A cloaked female figure labelled CIVILIZATION sits](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lady-godiva-rides-again-through-coventrys-streets-berryman-1940.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/lady-godiva-rides-again-through-coventrys-streets-berryman-1940.jpg)

# Lady Godiva Rides Again Through Coventry's Streets

A cloaked female figure labelled CIVILIZATION sits on a horse, hiding her face, above a ruined cathedral with a surviving spire, with smoke and rubble below. The cartoon borrows the Lady Godiva legend of Coventry and attaches it to the city's bombing (transfer), and uses the scene of destruction to evoke grief and alarm (fear appeal).

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LADY GODIVA RIDES AGAIN THROUGH COVENTRY'S STREETS

[label on figure:] CIVILIZATION
[signature:] JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← Chorus: ...But Adolf! What about that other nice piece?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-but-adolf-what-about-that-other-nice-piece-1940/) [He can do this --- but what can he do about this? →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-he-can-do-this-but-what-can-he-do-about-this-1940/)

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