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title: 'Your Britain: Fight for it Now [2]'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-your-britain-fight-for-it-now-games-1942/
description: A bomb-damaged brick terrace in dark brown tones is set beside a bright white block of workers' flats with balconies and a young tree.
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[![Your Britain: Fight for it Now \[2\], 1942 UK poster: A bomb-damaged brick terrace in dark brown tones is set beside a bright](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-your-britain-fight-for-it-now-games-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-your-britain-fight-for-it-now-games-1942.jpg)

# Your Britain: Fight for it Now [2]

A bomb-damaged brick terrace in dark brown tones is set beside a bright white block of workers' flats with balconies and a young tree, under 'Your Britain' and 'Fight for it now'. The tell for card-stacking is the paired selection: only the worst of the old housing and only the best of the new is shown, so the contrast can be read one way.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
YOUR BRITAIN
FIGHT FOR IT NOW
Clean, airy and well planned dwellings make a great contribution to the Rehousing movement. This is a fine example of a block of workers' flats built in London in 1936.
ISSUED BY A.B.C.A.
DESIGNED BY P.R.2. 70
PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD., LONDON, E.C.4
[signature:] A. GAMES '42
[sign on ruined wall, partly legible:] CARBOLIC DISINFECTANT KILLS [illegible]
```

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