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title: Facts about Britain at War
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-facts-about-britain-at-war-1942/
description: A red-bordered chart sheet under two Union Jacks sets out thirteen panels of wartime figures, from arms output and women mobilised to egg imports
section: Collection
---

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[![Facts about Britain at War, 1939 UK poster: A red-bordered chart sheet under two Union Jacks sets out thirteen panels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-facts-about-britain-at-war-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-facts-about-britain-at-war-1942.jpg)

# Facts about Britain at War

A red-bordered chart sheet under two Union Jacks sets out thirteen panels of wartime figures, from arms output and women mobilised to egg imports and taxation, each in pictograms. The tell for card-stacking is the selection of favourable comparisons with no denominators or counter-figures, as in 'Twice Germany's plane output per man', and for transfer the chart format and the quoted ministers lend official weight.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FACTS ABOUT BRITAIN AT WAR
A FEW EXAMPLES SHOWING HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE BRITISH ISLES ARE 'GOING TO IT'

Doing without Eggs
Reducing Fever
22 million on War Work
Twice Germany's plane output per man
Increasing Arms output
Shipbuilding
Staple Foods Rationed
Mobilizing Women
Bigger Bomb Loads
Indirect Taxation
Army Equipment
Faster Production

[Panel text is abridged to headings and pull-quotes; the sheet carries many small figures and captions.]
"Britain, with a population of 47,000,000, is producing as many planes as Germany with a population of 80,000,000." LORD HALIFAX, British Ambassador to the U.S.A. 3rd October, 1942.
```

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