This work explores the depiction of women in American recruitment posters from World War One, especially those created by Howard Chandler Christy. This study, based in reception theory and text-image analysis, contextualizes both the posters from the First World War and the enlistment of women by...
a multimedia history of world war one Home How It Began Battles Who's Who Posters Audio and Video Photos Selected Highlights Countdown to War Read a single page summary of the origins of the First World War - the tangled secret alliances, the royal feuds, the personalities and the seemingly...
On the homefront during World War I, civilians were mobilized to contribute to the war effort in various ways, such as working in factories to produce weapons and supplies, rationing food and resources, participating in propaganda campaigns, and providin
“Destroy this mad brute,” read one caption. It also funded films with titles like The Kaiser: The Beast of Berlin and The Prussian Curse. World War I US Army enlistment poster ‘Destroy this Mad Brute’. (Credit: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images) Vigilantes inflict terror on suspected ...
Learn about World War II propaganda posters and how they were used. Discover Japanese, German, and American propaganda posters aimed at helping the...
For the first six months of the war Asquith’s popularity remained high – but falling enlistments, the lack of military progress in Europe, the failed Gallipoli campaign and the Shell Crisis of 1915 all weakened his government. In May 1915 Asquith was forced to form a coalition government wi...
The second part of this blog will explore Marcel Gauthier’s life, from his military enlistment to his death. Photograph of Private Marcel Gauthier, age 21, published in an Ottawa newspaper to announce his death overseas (Canadian Virtual War Memorial). ...
One meeting per day, £25; two meetings per day, £17 Z10s. per meeting. Poster displays, amounting to many hundreds of pounds in cost, were also supplied by John Bull without charge. It will thus be seen that the war provided H.B. with an excellent source of revenue. The ...
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IN UST the Government announced that, as part of the World War I centenary events, paving stones will be laid in the hometowns of every UK soldier awarded the Victoria Cross. This is an admirable venture lest no-one forgets the horror and scale of death suffered in this most brutal of...