Ventilate Your Quarters
A blue wedge forms the V of 'Ventilate' and runs down toward a camouflaged barrack hut and an open window. The poster gives a bare instruction with no stated reason; the only persuasion is the clean-air imagery, a light use of virtue symbolism.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- H.M. Stationery Office (printer Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd., London); artist Abram Games
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, War and the military
- 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)
British government poster, printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd., London. National Archives and Records Administration, WWII Foreign Posters (NAID 44266608, 44-PF-208f).
Text on the object
Ventilate YOUR QUARTERS A. GAMES R.E. PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY LOWE & BRYDONE PRINTERS LTD., LONDON, N.W.10. 51-1502 P.R.2. No 47.
