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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Information, produced for the Ministry of Health and the Central Council for Health Education; printed for HMSO by W. R. Royle & Son Ltd.
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- 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 Information for the Ministry of Health and Central Council for Health Education; printed by W. R. Royle & Son Ltd. for HMSO, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
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
