Dig for Victory: All My Own Work
A boy in a cap kneels with chalk beside a blackboard reading 'All my own work', with a heap of home-grown cabbages, beetroot, carrots and onions at its foot, under the slogan 'Dig for Victory'. 'Victory' is a virtue word that attaches the national war aim to a garden task, and the ordinary schoolboy shows growing food as something anyone can do.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British government (printed for H.M. Stationery Office by H. Manly & Son Ltd, London N.22)
- 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
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
H.M. Stationery Office / H. Manly & Son Ltd, c. 1939-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, Foreign Posters (44-PF-149a).
Text on the object
Dig for Victory ...- V ...- V ...- V ...- V ...- V ALL MY OWN WORK Printed for H.M Stationery Office by H Manly & Son Ltd London.N.22 51-3415
