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title: 'Your Health in War-Time: Learn How to Keep Fighting Fit (exhibition, Charing Cross Underground Station)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-your-health-in-war-time-fighting-fit-exhibition-1939/
description: Flat stylised figures labelled 'Relaxation', 'Exercise' and 'Fresh Air & Sunshine' sit around a folded-plane backdrop above a blue panel advertising a free
section: Collection
---

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# Your Health in War-Time: Learn How to Keep Fighting Fit (exhibition, Charing Cross Underground Station)

Flat stylised figures labelled 'Relaxation', 'Exercise' and 'Fresh Air & Sunshine' sit around a folded-plane backdrop above a blue panel advertising a free exhibition. The wartime term 'Fighting Fit' carries a military quality over to ordinary personal health habits.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
your health
in war-time

FRESH AIR
& SUNSHINE
RELAXATION
EXERCISE

Learn how to keep
FIGHTING FIT
an exhibition on your health
CHARING CROSS UNDERGROUND STATION
7th to 28th JAN.   From 9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.   ADMISSION FREE
Produced for Ministry of Health and Central Council for Health Education
by Ministry of Information

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY W. R. ROYLE & SON LTD., LONDON, E.C.4. 51-3112
```

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