--- title: Steps in British Political Development url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/steps-in-british-political-development-uk-1941/ description: An illustrated timeline runs from 1066 to 1918, each step (Magna Carta, first Parliament, Bill of Rights, Reform Bill. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Steps in British Political Development [![Steps in British Political Development, 1941 UK poster: An illustrated timeline runs from 1066 to 1918, each step](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/steps-in-british-political-development-uk-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/steps-in-british-political-development-uk-1941.jpg) # Steps in British Political Development An illustrated timeline runs from 1066 to 1918, each step (Magna Carta, first Parliament, Bill of Rights, Reform Bill, votes for women) with a picture and a short paragraph. The card-stacking tell is that only expansions of rights and parliamentary power are listed; 'a great charter of liberty' and 'every adult citizen in Britain helps to govern the country' are the glittering-generalities wording. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` STEPS IN BRITISH POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT 1066-1100 UNIFICATION of ENGLAND William the Conqueror was the last conqueror of England. Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Danes had seized the country before. [...] (Full body text of the thirteen steps, 1154-1189 Common Law to 1918 Votes for Women, is printed on the poster; the closing paragraph reads:) 1918 VOTES FOR WOMEN Women over thirty were given the vote in 1918. Ten years later all women over twenty-one were given the right to vote. Every citizen was now able to vote, so now every adult citizen in Britain helps to govern the country. [imprint:] BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. An Agency of the British Government. C. LORAM '41 ``` [← The Enemy Shall Never Escape Our Wrath (reproduced from a Soviet war poster by Russian War Relief, Inc.)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-the-enemy-shall-never-escape-our-wrath-russian-war-relief-1941/) ['Stop useless resistance' (Japanese leaflet to the Hong Kong garrison) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stop-useless-resistance-hong-kong-leaflet-1941/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.