Training for Citizenship: Britain's Boys and Girls Discuss the Replanning of London, 1939 UK poster: One photograph shows

Training for Citizenship: Britain's Boys and Girls Discuss the Replanning of London (For Freedom series, F.D./F.1)

One photograph shows young people seated around a hall as officers at a table under a 'Clubland: London Replanned' board run a mock-parliament style debate, under the title on youth citizenship. The tell for transfer is the Union Jack device and 'For Freedom' label, and for glittering-generalities the phrase 'the responsibilities of citizenship' and the claim that Britain's youth is 'playing a great part' in the manpower mobilisation, with no figures.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Transfer Glittering generalities

Date: 1939
Period: Second World War
Made by: 'For Freedom' series poster (Union Jack device); issuing body not named on the poster
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: United Kingdom
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Churchill Government
Leader: Winston Churchill
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: Home front, Elections and party politics
Event: World War II
Regime: Churchill wartime government
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-561d.

Text on the object

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

F.D./F.1

FOR FREEDOM
TRAINING FOR CITIZENSHIP
BRITAIN'S BOYS AND GIRLS DISCUSS THE REPLANNING OF LONDON

IN "CLUBLAND" a typical youth organisation in Britain, the members meet once a week to settle the business of the club. General topics are debated as well, and here they are discussing an important post-war problem—the replanning of London. In this way, Britain's citizens of the future learn how to accept the responsibilities of citizenship while in the midst of war. By day most of these young people are in the war factories and training centres. Britain's youth is playing a great part in the record mobilisation of Britain's manpower.

[in photograph:] CLUBLAND / LONDON REPLANNED / PRIME MINISTER / THE SPEAKER / ART CHAIRMAN / MUSIC CHAIRMAN