Work for a Record Harvest: Only by frequent hoeing can weeds be destroyed
A photograph of eight young people hoeing a field is set in a painted window frame above the slogan 'Work for a record harvest'. The line of workers shows the task as already shared by many, the bandwagon tell, while the message above it is plain farming instruction.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- H.M. Stationery Office (government issue); artist Beverley Pick; printed by Henry Hildesley Ltd
- 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, Labor
- 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; artist Beverley Pick, via U.S. National Archives (RG 44), c. 1939-1945.
Text on the object
Only by frequent hoeing can weeds be destroyed and the fields give their greatest possible yield WORK FOR A RECORD HARVEST [signature:] BEVERLEY PICK
