You Mined This Mine
A photograph shows a group of men in caps and overalls steadying a naval mine as it is lifted on a hoist against a pale sky. The headline 'YOU MINED THIS MINE' and the figures on coal needed to make and fill it (4 tons and 40 or more) credit the miner with the weapon (identity-fusion).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Fuel and Power; printed for HMSO by Multi-Machine Plates Ltd
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military, 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)
Ministry of Fuel and Power; printed for HMSO by Multi-Machine Plates Ltd, London. U.S. National Archives (RG 44).
Text on the object
YOU MINED THIS MINE It takes 4 tons of coal to make this mine and 40 or more to 'fill' it ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER H.77 [small print:] PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI-MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON S.E.4. 51-2086 [partly illegible]
