Each of the nations which participated in World War One from 1914-18 used propaganda posters not only as a means of justifying involvement to their own populace, but also as a means of procuring men, money and resources to sustain the military campaign. ...
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Once there the wiring party would, as occasion demanded, insert new wiring posts (approximately 6 feet in height) ahead of the fronttrench, either by hammering the post with a muffled mallet, or else by winding the post in the manner of a screw (the earlier method being more common during...
The First World War, a new low in the annals of armed conflict, coincided with a golden age for the relatively new art of advertising. This book offers an informative guide to the range of posters created and to how they were displayed around the nation, and explores the public's increasi...
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Artists such as Saville Lumley, Alfred Leete, Frank Brangwyn and Norman Lindsay, produced a series of posters urging men to join the British Army. The desire to fight continued into 1915 and by the end of that year some two million men had volunteered their services....
The Royal Mint’s coin series commemorates the First World War, and the journey from outbreak to armistice.
Not everyone reflected the pathos and fiery rage of the now-famous recruiting posters.The Sketchinstead showed the window of a Scarborough antiques dealer with a portrait of Lord Kitchener still defiantly hanging in the window, despite the damage done to the rest of the shop front.The Bystander...
Here’s a quick look at the pair in the first posters published by Qie Shi Tian Xia’s production. I’m totally digging the wintry blue, white and grey palette they used to give the scenes a touch of serenity. Source:1
Although the title ‘personal experiences’ implies that it deals with the most intimate sources, in fact a great deal of the material presented here is very much generated within the public discourse of the war: it would be more accurate to describe this as a ‘social history’ in order ...