Make Nursing Your War Job - It's War Work with a Future
A smiling nurse in cap and uniform is cut out in front of a hospital ward with two bandaged patients, above the words 'Make nursing your war job - it's War Work with a future. Ask here for explanatory leaflet'. The tell is the virtue phrase 'War Work with a future', which promises a benefit without stating terms; the leaflet carries the details.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Not stated on the poster (printed in England by Charles & Read Ltd.)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; UK-printed 1939-1945 (copyright status not examined); hosted by owner decision
Printer Charles & Read Ltd.; issuer not stated. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-280.
Text on the object
MAKE NURSING YOUR WAR JOB -it's War Work with a future ASK HERE FOR EXPLANATORY LEAFLET [imprint:] Printed in England by Charles & Read Ltd.
