--- title: Asquith government url: https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/ description: From 5 April 1908 to 5 December 1916 the Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith led the United Kingdom's cabinet government, which passed the Parliament Act of… section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a pre-1914 imperial intelligence-dossier collage of colonial telegraph logs, sepia field photography and empire maps.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-pre1914.jpg) [Regimes](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/) # Asquith government At a glance The Liberal government of H. H. Asquith, in office from 5 April 1908 and a coalition with the Conservatives from 25 May 1915, until his resignation on 5 December 1916; it took the United Kingdom into the First World War. - **Period:** 1908 to 1916 - **Country:** United Kingdom - **Leader:** [H. H. Asquith](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#herbert-henry-asquith) - **People listed:** 16 - **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) On this page - [The leader and the people under the leader](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#the-leader-and-the-people-under-the-leader) - [Background and rise to power](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#background-and-rise-to-power) - [How power was organized](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#how-power-was-organized) - [The propaganda apparatus](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#the-propaganda-apparatus) - [Timeline](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#timeline) - [Same-standard note](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#same-standard-note) - [Sources](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#sources) - [In the archive](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/asquith-government/#in-the-archive) **In one line:** From 5 April 1908 to 5 December 1916 the Liberal Herbert Henry Asquith led the United Kingdom's cabinet government, which passed the Parliament Act of 1911 and a third Home Rule Bill for Ireland, took Britain into the First World War on 4 August 1914, put the press and post under wartime regulation, ran recruiting and propaganda partly in the open and partly in secret, and governed in coalition from May 1915. ## The leader and the people under the leader - ![H. H. Asquith, undated portrait](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/herbert-henry-asquith.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asquith_LCCN2014687833.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — H. H. Asquith — Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury · 1908 to 1916 — Chaired the cabinet from 5 April 1908, led the government that entered the war on 4 August 1914, appointed the Bryce committee in December 1914, formed the coalition of 25 May 1915 and resigned on 5 December 1916. — In their words — > “we are fighting to vindicate the principle which, in these days when force, material force, sometimes seems to be the dominant influence and factor in the development of mankind, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.” > > Speech in the House of Commons on the Vote of Credit, 6 August 1914, Hansard, HC Deb vol. 65, col. 2079 [source](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/aug/06/vote-of-credit-lb100000000#column_2079) — > “The ends of the Allies are well known; they have been frequently and precisely stated. They are not selfish ends, they are not vindictive ends, but they require that there shall be adequate reparation for the past and adequate security for the future.” > > Statement by the Prime Minister, House of Commons, 11 October 1916, Hansard, HC Deb vol. 86, col. 103 [source](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1916/oct/11/statement-by-prime-minister#column_103) — In the archive: [Wellington House and the Bryce Report: atrocity evidence, confirmed and unconfirmed (1914-1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/bryce-report-1915/) ### Cabinet - ![David Lloyd George, between about 1910 and 1915](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/david-lloyd-george.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Lloyd_George_LCCN2014698950.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — David Lloyd George — Chancellor of the Exchequer; from May 1915 Minister of Munitions · 1908 to 1915 — Chancellor from 1908 and author of the 1909 budget; ran the new Ministry of Munitions from May 1915, became Secretary of State for War in July 1916, and succeeded Asquith as Prime Minister on 7 December 1916. — In the archive: [Wartime censorship in the First World War: Britain, Germany, France and the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/wwi-wartime-censorship/) - ![Sir Edward Grey in 1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/edward-grey.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GREY,_SIR_EDWARD_LCCN2016865817.jpg): Harris & Ewing, Public domain (PD-Harris-Ewing; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Edward Grey — Foreign Secretary · 1905 to 1916 — Headed the Foreign Office from December 1905 to December 1916; told the House of Commons on 3 August 1914 the case for war after the German invasion of Belgium; created Viscount Grey of Fallodon in July 1916. - ![Winston Churchill, undated portrait](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/winston-churchill.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winston_Churchill_LCCN2014684733.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Winston Churchill — First Lord of the Admiralty · 1911 to 1915 — Headed the Admiralty from October 1911, and the naval side of the Dardanelles campaign of 1915 was planned under him; left the Admiralty in May 1915 and the government in November 1915, then served with the army in France. - ![Reginald McKenna, undated portrait](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/reginald-mckenna.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reginald_McKenna_LCCN2014716496.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Reginald McKenna — Chancellor of the Exchequer (from May 1915); earlier Home Secretary · 1915 to 1916 — Home Secretary from October 1911 to May 1915, the office whose September 1914 minute set up the collection of evidence on German conduct later used by the Bryce committee; Chancellor of the Exchequer from 25 May 1915 until December 1916. ### Armed forces - ![Lord Kitchener, 1915](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/herbert-kitchener.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_Kitchener_LCCN2014702041.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Herbert Kitchener — Secretary of State for War · 1914 to 1916 — Field marshal appointed on 5 August 1914 to raise a volunteer New Army; the subject of the false report that led to the suppression of *The Globe* in November 1915; died on 5 June 1916 when HMS *Hampshire* struck a mine off Orkney. — In the archive: [Wartime censorship in the First World War: Britain, Germany, France and the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/wwi-wartime-censorship/) - ![General Sir John French, 1915](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/john-french.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gen._Sir_John_French_LCCN2014702050.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — John French — Commander-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force · 1914 to 1915 — Commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France from August 1914 until Douglas Haig replaced him in December 1915, then commanded the forces in Britain. - ![Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, 1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/john-jellicoe.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admiral_Jellicoe_LCCN2014697061.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — John Jellicoe — Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet · 1914 to 1916 — Took command of the Grand Fleet in August 1914, asked that the loss of HMS *Audacious* in October 1914 be kept secret, commanded at Jutland on 31 May and 1 June 1916, and became First Sea Lord in December 1916. — In the archive: [Wartime censorship in the First World War: Britain, Germany, France and the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/wwi-wartime-censorship/) - ![Sir William Robertson in uniform, between 1910 and 1915](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/william-robertson.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_William_Robertson_negative_(cropped).jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — William Robertson — Chief of the Imperial General Staff · 1915 to 1918 — Chief of the General Staff to the British Expeditionary Force in 1915, became Chief of the Imperial General Staff on 23 December 1915 and held the post until February 1918, under Asquith's coalition and then Lloyd George's. ### War propaganda and censorship - ![Charles Masterman in 1923, from the Illustrated London News](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/charles-masterman.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1923_CFG_Masterman.jpg): Unknown (photographer not credited by the Illustrated London News), Public domain (PD-UK-unknown, PD-US) — Charles Masterman — Head of the War Propaganda Bureau (Wellington House); Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1914 to 1915 · 1914 to 1917 — Ran the bureau at Wellington House from September 1914, met leading writers there on 2 September 1914 and kept its work unannounced; sat in the cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from February 1914 to February 1915. — In the archive: [Wellington House and the Bryce Report: atrocity evidence, confirmed and unconfirmed (1914-1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/bryce-report-1915/) - ![Sir Gilbert Parker, undated full-length portrait](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/gilbert-parker.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Gilbert_Parker_LCCN2014717880.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Gilbert Parker — Head of the American section, War Propaganda Bureau · 1914 to 1917 — Canadian-born novelist and Member of Parliament chosen on 2 September 1914 to run Wellington House's work in the United States, where his mailings to opinion leaders carried his own name and not the bureau's; active until 1917. — In their words — > “We advertised and stimulated many people to write articles. We utilised the friendly services and assistance of confidential friends; we had reports from important Americans constantly, and established association by personal correspondence with influential and eminent people of every profession in the United States, beginning with the university and college presidents, professors, and scientific men, and running through all the ranges of population.” > > Sir Gilbert Parker, head of the American department at Wellington House, "The United States and the War," Harper's Magazine 136 (March 1918), pp. 521-531, extract reproduced in Harold D. Lasswell, Propaganda Technique in the World War (London: Kegan Paul, 1927), pp. 165-166 [source](https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.233727) — In the archive: [Wellington House and the Bryce Report: atrocity evidence, confirmed and unconfirmed (1914-1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/bryce-report-1915/) - ![F. E. Smith, Solicitor General, in a barrister's wig](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/f-e-smith.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F.E._Smith,_Solicitor_General_LCCN2014700345.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — F. E. Smith — Attorney General; earlier Director of the Press Bureau · 1915 to 1919 — Put in charge of the Press Bureau and its newspaper censorship on the outbreak of war in August 1914; Solicitor General from May 1915 and Attorney General from late 1915, in which office he led the Crown's prosecution of Roger Casement in 1916. — In their words — > “No one will suppose, for instance, that we are to manufacture incidents. It is suggested we should have the assistance of journalists, but it is no part of our functions to manufacture news. We are not in competition with the news agencies.” > > F. E. Smith, Director of the Press Bureau, speech in the House of Commons on the Press Bureau, 31 August 1914, Hansard, HC Deb vol. 66, col. 490 [source](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/aug/31/the-times-and-the-press-censor#column_490) — > “I can only add that the principle on which we have gone in asking the Press to be silent has been to ask them to exclude material which was excluded by the decisions of Lord Kitchener and the War Office upon lines of general policy.” > > F. E. Smith, Director of the Press Bureau, speech in the House of Commons on the Press Bureau, 31 August 1914, Hansard, HC Deb vol. 66, col. 493 [source](https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/aug/31/the-times-and-the-press-censor#column_493) — In the archive: [Wartime censorship in the First World War: Britain, Germany, France and the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/wwi-wartime-censorship/) - ![Baron Buckmaster, undated portrait](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/stanley-buckmaster.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baron_Buckmaster_LCCN2014698053.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Stanley Buckmaster — Lord Chancellor; earlier Director of the Press Bureau · 1915 to 1916 — Solicitor General from 1913 and Director of the Press Bureau in 1914 and 1915; became Lord Chancellor on 25 May 1915 and resigned with Asquith in December 1916. — In the archive: [Wartime censorship in the First World War: Britain, Germany, France and the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/wwi-wartime-censorship/) ### Empire and Ireland - ![Andrew Bonar Law, between about 1915 and 1920](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/andrew-bonar-law.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A._Bonar_Law_LCCN2014708280.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Andrew Bonar Law — Secretary of State for the Colonies; Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party · 1915 to 1916 — Led the Unionist opposition from 1911 and, in the coalition, ran the Colonial Office from 25 May 1915; with Asquith and the Labour leader Arthur Henderson he was a president of the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. - ![Augustine Birrell, undated portrait](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/augustine-birrell.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Augustine_Birrell_LCCN2002714213.jpg): Bain News Service, Public domain (PD-Bain; no known restrictions, Library of Congress) — Augustine Birrell — Chief Secretary for Ireland · 1907 to 1916 — Ran the Irish administration at Dublin Castle and answered for it in the cabinet and the Commons; resigned in early May 1916 after the Easter Rising. - ![John Redmond in about 1909](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/asquith-government/john-redmond.jpg) — [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Redmond,_circa_1909.jpg): Russell & Sons, London, Public domain (PD-1923, PD-US-expired) — John Redmond — Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party · 1900 to 1918 — Led the Irish Nationalist members in the Commons, on whose votes the government relied after 1910 and whose Home Rule Bill became law in 1914; offered the Irish Volunteers for home defence on 3 August 1914 and declined a coalition post in May 1915. Not a member of the government. ## Background and rise to power The United Kingdom in 1908 was a parliamentary monarchy with a worldwide empire. The Commons was elected on a limited franchise: women could not vote, nor could many working men. Asquith, a barrister and Liberal member of Parliament since 1886, was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Henry Campbell-Bannerman and became Prime Minister on 5 April 1908, when Campbell-Bannerman resigned, without a general election. His cabinet included David Lloyd George at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office and, from 1911, Winston Churchill at the Admiralty. The House of Lords rejected Lloyd George's 1909 budget, and two general elections in 1910 left the Liberals dependent on Irish Nationalist and Labour votes. The Parliament Act of 1911 removed the Lords' power to block money bills and limited it to a two-year delay on other bills. The third Home Rule Bill, introduced in April 1912, led to the Ulster Covenant of September 1912, to armed volunteer forces in the north (1913) and the south (November 1913) of Ireland, and to the Curragh incident of March 1914, when army officers in Ireland said they would resign rather than act against Ulster. The bill became law on 18 September 1914, with an act suspending it until the war ended. ## How power was organized A cabinet of about twenty ministers, chosen by the Prime Minister and answerable to the Commons, governed. Asquith chaired it as First Lord of the Treasury; Reginald McKenna held the Home Office from 1911. After the German invasion of Belgium the cabinet decided on war, and the declaration of 4 August applied to the whole empire, including the self-governing dominions and India. Herbert Kitchener, a field marshal and not a party politician, became Secretary of State for War on 5 August and built a volunteer "New Army", since Britain had no peacetime conscription. Wartime powers came by statute. The Defence of the Realm Act of 8 August 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5 c. 29) let the King in Council issue regulations "for securing the public safety and the defence of the realm", and Regulation 27 made it an offence to spread "false reports" or reports "intended or likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty" (wartime censorship). The shell shortage on the Western Front, Admiral Fisher's resignation as First Sea Lord on 15 May 1915 and the Dardanelles campaign led Asquith to form a coalition, which took office on 25 May. Conservatives took the Admiralty (Balfour), the Colonial Office (Bonar Law) and, until October, the Attorney-Generalship (Edward Carson). Churchill left the Admiralty and, in November, the government; Lloyd George became Minister of Munitions. The Military Service Act of January 1916 introduced conscription in Great Britain, not Ireland. In December 1916 Lloyd George proposed a small war committee outside Asquith's chairmanship, Bonar Law backed him, and Asquith resigned on 5 December. **Ireland and the empire.** Ireland was governed from London: the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell (1907 to 1916), answered to the cabinet, and the Irish Nationalist members led by John Redmond sat in the Commons but not in the cabinet. Redmond offered the Irish Volunteers to defend Ireland on 3 August 1914 and urged them to enlist on 20 September, which split the movement; he declined a coalition post in May 1915. In the Easter Rising of 24 to 29 April 1916 Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army seized buildings in Dublin; martial law was proclaimed and fifteen leaders were shot between 3 and 12 May; Birrell resigned in early May (Jeffery). Press censorship applied in Ireland during and after the Rising, and officials sought to limit what news reached the United States (Ó Drisceoil). Elsewhere in the empire, Indian Army troops were in France by the autumn of 1914 and Egypt became a British protectorate on 18 December 1914. ## The propaganda apparatus Britain had no propaganda ministry in 1914. The **Official Press Bureau**, set up in August 1914 under **F. E. Smith** and later led by **Stanley Buckmaster**, censored military news and cables and issued official news to the newspapers. At Admiral Jellicoe's request the Admiralty asked the press not to report the loss of HMS *Audacious* in October 1914. Papers that broke the rules were suppressed: the London *Globe* for about two weeks in November 1915, after a false report that Kitchener was about to resign, and the Glasgow weekly *Forward*, whose issue of 1 January 1916 was suppressed in the first days of that month (wartime censorship). The regulations also reached private letters and Irish nationalist newspapers (Ó Drisceoil). The **War Propaganda Bureau at Wellington House** was headed by **Charles Masterman**, who was also a cabinet minister until February 1915. On 2 September 1914 he met leading British writers, and the bureau's existence was not announced. Its books and pamphlets appeared under the imprints of commercial firms and went mainly to neutral countries, above all the United States, where **Gilbert Parker** ran an American section (Sanders and Taylor; Messinger). The bureau distributed the Bryce Report, published on 12 May 1915 by a committee that Asquith appointed in December 1914 (Wellington House and the Bryce Report). Horne and Kramer's later research confirms the killing of about 6,500 Belgian and French civilians in 1914, the report's central charge, but not the specific mutilation stories repeated from it. Recruiting was open and party-led: the **Parliamentary Recruiting Committee**, whose presidents were the Prime Minister and the Conservative and Labour leaders, issued the posters (the WWI poster page). In the archive: *Remember Belgium*, *Cold-Blooded Murder!*, *Have You Any Women-Folk Worth Defending?* (printed in Dublin), *Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?*, *Ireland and Poland* and the private Winox poster stamps. The archive's definitions fit most clearly: fear appeal and scapegoating (the 1915 recruiting posters), card stacking (*Cold-Blooded Murder!* lists confirmed and unverified charges in one typeface), name-calling (the Winox stamps), testimonial (the Bryce Report's eminent signatories) and narrative laundering (bureau-funded material under commercial imprints). Each is defined as on the [German Empire](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/german-empire/) page, which covers the same war from the other side. ## Timeline - 5 April 1908: Asquith becomes Prime Minister. - April 1912: the third Home Rule Bill is introduced. - 4 August 1914: Britain declares war on Germany. - 8 August 1914: the Defence of the Realm Act passes; the Press Bureau opens the same month. - 2 September 1914: Masterman meets British writers at Wellington House. - 18 September 1914: Royal Assent to Home Rule and the suspending act. - December 1914: the Bryce committee is appointed. - 7 May 1915: the *Lusitania* is sunk; the Bryce Report follows on 12 May. - 25 May 1915: the coalition takes office. - Early January 1916: the issue of *Forward* dated 1 January is suppressed in Glasgow. - 24 to 29 April 1916: the Easter Rising in Dublin; executions 3 to 12 May. - 5 December 1916: Asquith resigns. ## Same-standard note This page uses the same structure and definitions as every other regime page: a technique is listed only where the archive's working definition and a documented example fit, the same technique ids are applied to every regime, and offices and dates are stated without judging the people who held them. The scale and purpose are set out as history, not as a ranking: an elected parliamentary government that, in wartime, censored military news, suppressed some newspapers, ran a partly unannounced propaganda bureau and governed an empire and Ireland whose people did not vote on entering the war. Other regime pages record other systems, each with its own scale, intent and context. ## Sources - Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5 c. 29), 8 August 1914, and the Defence of the Realm Regulations, Regulation 27, in *The Defence of the Realm Manual* (HMSO). - Committee on Alleged German Outrages, *Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages* (HMSO, 1915). - House of Commons, "Suppression of 'Forward' Newspaper", *Hansard*, 10 January 1916. - M. L. Sanders and Philip M. Taylor, *British Propaganda during the First World War, 1914 to 1918* (1982); Gary S. Messinger, *British Propaganda and the State in the First World War* (1992). - Trevor Wilson, "Lord Bryce's Investigation into Alleged German Atrocities in Belgium, 1914 to 1915", *Journal of Contemporary History* 14 (1979); John Horne and Alan Kramer, *German Atrocities, 1914* (2001). - Cate Haste, *Keep the Home Fires Burning* (1977); Keith Jeffery, *Ireland and the Great War* (2000); Donal Ó Drisceoil, "Keeping disloyalty within bounds? British media control in Ireland, 1914 to 1919", *Irish Historical Studies* 38 (2012); Arthur Ponsonby, *Falsehood in War-Time* (1928). ## In the archive ### Collection objects (11) - [Torturing Women in Prison. Vote Against the Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/torturing-women-in-prison-wspu-1910/) (1910 · Name-calling) - ["I hear they want more Bovril. My place is at the front" (Bovril poster, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bovril-my-place-is-at-the-front-1915/) (1915 · Transfer) - [Cold-Blooded Murder! Remember Germany's Crowning Infamy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cold-blooded-murder-1915/) (1915 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daddy-what-did-you-do-1915/) (1915 · Fear appeal) - [Ireland & Poland (recruiting appeal quoting the Rev. William P. Burke)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ireland-and-poland-1915/) (1915 · Fear appeal, Testimonial) - [Mr. John Dillon, M.P., on recruiting in Ireland. Join an Irish regiment to-day](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/john-dillon-on-recruiting-in-ireland-1915/) (1915 · Testimonial, Semantic hijacking) - [Remember Belgium — Enlist To-Day](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-belgium-1915/) (1915 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating, Transfer) - [The Serbian Relief Fund: Begs Aid for Our Brave Ally (1d charity stamp)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/serbian-relief-fund-begs-aid-stamp-1915/) (1915 · Glittering generalities) - [Winox anti-German poster stamps: Zeppelin, Edith Cavell, "Kultur", Lusitania (Britain, 1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/winox-anti-german-poster-stamps-1915/) (1915 · Name-calling) - [Have You Any Women-Folk Worth Defending? Remember the Women of Belgium. Join To-Day](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/women-folk-worth-defending-1915/) (1915 · Fear appeal) - [Proclamation of the Irish Republic (Poblacht na hÉireann), Easter Rising](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/proclamation-of-the-irish-republic-1916/) (Apr 24, 1916 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) ### Case studies - [Wellington House and the Bryce Report: atrocity evidence, confirmed and unconfirmed (1914-1915)](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/bryce-report-1915/) - [Wartime censorship in the First World War: Britain, Germany, France and the United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/wwi-wartime-censorship/) ### Learn and Write - [WWI propaganda posters: who made them and how they worked](https://propagandaarchive.org/learn/ww1-propaganda-posters/)