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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer and printer not named on the poster; quotes the British Minister of Labour, Minister of Production and Lord Halifax
- 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, War and the military
- 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; wartime British government-period print, hosted by owner decision
Issuer not named on the poster; British wartime poster. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-167.
Text on the object
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.
