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A Mosquito
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
A De Haviland Mosquito aircraft with RAF camouflage scheme, white and black stripes on lower fuselage, known as 'invasion stripes'. These indicate that this is after D-Day, 6 June 1944.ART23488
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And now!
Art
Maker: Uptton, Clive Ministry of Supply Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British poster number 167 poster depicting a British soldier advancing past the bodies of German soldiers towards Japanese soldiers, the horizon is obscured by a Japanese flag (under the 'Beat Hitler...ARTV00049
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Appearance of a long-nosed Blenheim
Art
Maker: Nash, Paul
Depicts a Second World War Blenhein airplane emerging from a cloud filled sky. Nash was appointed as a British official war artist in March 1940 by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, working for the...ART26679
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Are your guards all present and correct
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Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
poster produced by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to increase awareness of need for safety guards on machinery, depicts a guardsman m...ARTV01682
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Back them up! Heavy Stirling bombers raid the Nazi Baltic part of Lübeck and leave the docks ablaze
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Maker: Nockolds, Roy Ministry of Information Fosh & Cross Ltd. H.M. Stationery Office
British poster depicting an air raid on the German port of Lübeck, showing fires and damage to the docks area and appealing to the public for support. The subtitle is 'Heavy Stirling bombers raid the ...ARTV02297
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Better pot-luck with Churchill today...
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Food Perry Colourprint Ltd
During the Second World War, the British were faced with food shortages, due in part to a concerted campaign by the German Navy, who used U-boats to sink British supply ships. The British government i...ARTV02611
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Bombing up a Lancaster for Wing Commander Douglas
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Loading bombs onto a Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber for Bomber Command. Aircraft has protective cover over starboard wheel. Seen in the foreground are two loose bombs and a pair of universal bo...ART26261
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Britain needs you at once
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Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd.
Recruiting poster produced by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, depicting Saint George mounted on a white charger killing a dragon.ARTV01139
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Buy war bonds now
Art
Maker: Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd
poster depicting soldiers, carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, going into action, text encourages purchase of war bondsARTV00975
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Careless talk costs lives: ".....but of course it musn't go any further!"
Art
Maker: Ministry of Information
British Second World War cautionary poster issued by the Ministry of Information. It depicts two men talking in a railway carriage with Herman Goering and Adolf Hitler sitting in the luggage racks ove...ARTV02450
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Careless talk costs lives: "Don't forget that walls have ears!"
Art
Maker: Ministry of Information
British Second World War cautionary poster depicts two women having tea. The wallpaper is a repeat pattern of Adolf Hitler's head. This one of a series of 'careless talk costs lives' posters by Cyril ...ARTV02448
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Comradeship!
Art
Maker: Bailey, Albert E Haycocks Ltd. Dean Street
Post-First World War; recruitment, encampment; Territorial Army; recruiting poster depicting group of men gathered around a camp fire, tents in backgroundARTV04916
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Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?
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Maker: Lumley, Savile Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Johnson, Riddle & Co. Ltd.
Depicts a father sitting in an armchair with a look of concern across his face. His son plays with toys soldiers below him on the carpet, while his daughter sits on his knee, pointing to a page in her...ARTV00433
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Dear Daddy... don't get accidented
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Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
casualty; cautionary poster produced for the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting a child's letter to her father, which includes a s...ARTV01712
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Don't stand looking at it. Take it to the salvage dump
Art
Maker: Davidson, Charles Lamb British Army Roberts & Leete
British First World War poster depicting a caricature of a heavily laden soldier standing near an old wooden cart wheel, that lies on the ground near him. The accompanying text encourages taking salva...ARTV00113
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Don't stand looking at this
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
British First World War recruitment poster depicts silhouetted soldiers going into action - the text calls for viewers to help them, rather than be content to merely look at the poster. The brown silh...ARTV07427
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Don't waste bread!
Art
Maker: Ministry of Food Clarke & Sherwell Ltd.
bakery products, bread, woman, submarine; poster produced by the British Ministry of Food, encouraging reduced consumption of bread with consequent saving of scarce resources at the time of the 'sink ...ARTV00378
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Eat Less Bread
Art
Maker: Unknown Ministry of Food Hill, Siffken & Co. (L.P.A., Ltd.)
bakery products, bread; poster urging people to 'eat less bread', which will save scarce resourcesARTV07403
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Every pound invested in national war bonds...
Art
Maker: A J British Government Unknown
ship yards, warship; poster depicting a ship being built, encouraging purchase of war bondsARTV00970
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Feed the guns with war bonds.
Art
Maker: Stanley, Sidney Walter G.P. Ltd.
poster depicting soldier with rifle and fixed bayonet in action at the Front, encouraging purchase of war bondsARTV00938
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Feed the guns with war bonds and help to bring them down
Art
Maker: National War Savings Committee National War Savings Committee Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd
British First World War poster promoting the sale of War Bonds. It features three crossed searchlight beams over a silhouetted London city skyline, and flak from anti-aircraft fire. Two small yellow b...ARTV00936
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Flight engineer
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
Part of the interior of a Handley Page Halifax bomber, showing seated flight engineer in flying dress.ART25689
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Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
Part of the interior of a Handley Page Halifax bomber, showing seated flight engineer in flying dress. Study for 'Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber (ART25689).ART22982
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Halt!
Art
Maker: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Clerkenwell Press Ltd.
recruiting poster, text only, produced for the British Parliamentary Recruiting CommitteeARTV04895
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If you can't go to the factory help the neighbour who can
Art
Maker: Ministry of Health Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd.
Poster issued by the Ministry of Health, depicting a woman waving goodbye to children being welcomed into a house by another woman, poster encourages those not working in factories to care for childre...ARTV01970
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In the Armoury
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
Armourers at work. Man in foreground is using a bench vice; man in background man is using a file.ART22966
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It's our flag
Art
Maker: Lipscombe, Guy Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
patriotism, national flag, recruitment; poster depicting the Union Jack, the national flag of the United KingdomARTV07447
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I wonder if I did?
Art
Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
civilian, bed and bedding; cautionary poster produced by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting a man alseep in bed, dreaming he i...ARTV01686
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Join the ATS
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Maker: Games, Abram HMSO Fosh & Cross Ltd.
A British recruitment poster encouraging women to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service, depicting a stylised portrait of a woman in profile, wearing an ATS forage cap. This was one of three designs ...ARTV01379
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Leading Aircraftman Arthur Adams
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Leading Aircraftman Arthur Hope Adams, Q127611, RAAF in Britain.ART22359
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Making sailors: boat-drill
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information
Depicts six sailors standing on the deck of a ship and pulling on the ropes of a life boat. Another sailor stands in the life boat. This work is number 21 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great ...ART91701
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Making sailors: "duff"
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information
Depicts young sailors sitting on stools at the tables in the mess. This work is number 20 from the series of 66 lithographs,'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals', published by the British Mini...ART91700
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Making sailors: going aboard
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information
Depicts sailors climbing aboard their ship. This work is number 22 from the series of 66 lithographs,'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals', published by the British Ministry of Information, Lo...ART91702
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Making sailors: the gun
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information
Depicts six sailors grouped around a gun; one holds a shell and another leans over the gun barrel. This work is number 24 from the series of 66 lithographs,'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals...ART91704
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Making sailors: the look-out
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information
Depicts a sailor, dressed in an oil-skin foul weather coat, looking out over the guns onto the sea. This work is number 23 from the series of 66 lithographs,'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideal...ART91703
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Making sailors: youthful ambition
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information
Depicts a young boy in civilian dress looks across a harbour at a warship. The same boy also appears as an onlooker in the last of Brangwyn's Christ Hospital panels,'let the people praise thee, O God'...ART91699
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Mosquito on the tarmac
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
Viewed from above, Adams depicts a de Havilland Mosquito aircraft standing on the tarmac, painted in RAF camouflage scheme.ART23474
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National Service: Women's Land Army
Art
Maker: Hewit, Forest Johnson, Riddle & Co. Ltd.
This British recruitment poster for the Women's Land Army depicts a young female recruit filling a feed trough with hay for a horse and foal.ARTV01018
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"No, he didn't tell me what his regiment was..." or even his name - he must have been reading those posters.."
Art
Maker: 517 (Corps Fld Svy) Coy, Royal Engineers 517 (Corps Fld Svy) Coy, Royal Engineers
hospital; poster depicting a young woman in a hospital bed with a new baby, her woman visitor is being told 'he must have been reading those posters' (about guarding against careless talk)ARTV07965
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Percy Vere no.15
Art
Maker: Mendoza, Montague Philip Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
one of a series of cautionary posters from the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting workers observing (or not observing) safety and ...ARTV01772
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Please let passengers off the car first
Art
Maker: London Underground Railways Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicts a man in a rush to board a train, knocks over an alighting passenger. This one of a series of posters by Cyril Kenneth Bird (1887-1965) that focus on public man...ARTV02505
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Please pass down the car
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Maker: London Passenger Transport Board Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicts man on railway station platform looking at railway carriage, while passengers are jammed together inside doorway. However, there is much more space further in t...ARTV02227
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Please stand on the right of the escalator
Art
Maker: London Passenger Transport Board Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicts an escalator giving access to/from an Underground (Tube) Station. A line of passengers stands on the right, while one man standing on the left has an 'L' sign ...ARTV02226
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"Provided factory workers..."
Art
Maker: Unknown Ministry of Supply Unknown
poster features portrait of the British Prime Minister, Mr (later Sir) Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, with a quotation from one of his speeches to the House of Commons, 28 November 1944, expressin...ARTV01797
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Put Strength In The Final Blow: Buy War Bonds
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank The Avenue Press Ltd.
A First World War British Army poster appealing for people to buy war bonds. It depicts a British soldier attacking and bayonetting a German soldier, while a massed attack goes on in the background. ...ARTV07420
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Rally round the flag...
Art
Maker: Collett Publicity Department, Central London Recruiting Depot Unknown
Early British First World War recruitment poster issued by the War Office. It is an appeal to the viewers patriotism. The image takes up the whole and is a depiction of a British infantryman holding h...ARTV05143
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Rear Gunner, Halifax bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
External view of a gunner in the rear turret of a Halifax bomber. This is a Boulton Paul Type E turret with four 0.303 inch machine guns. Dennis Adams portrayed Royal Australian and United States nav...ART22962
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recto: Horseplay ; verso: In cases of Serious injury...
Art
Maker: Keely, Patrick Cokayne Unknown Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
British Second World War cautionary poster. During the war, it was important to have each work-age individual available for work. This poster provides advice on first aid in cases of serious injury. ...ARTV01636
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recto: Percy Vere no. 11; verso: Asking for trouble...
Art
Maker: Eckersley, Thomas Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
One of a series of cautionary posters from the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting workers observing (or not observing) safety and ...ARTV02245
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recto: Percy Vere (no. 21); verso: Get first aid at once
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Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
One of over 200 work health and safety posters issued by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) aimed at workers in the industrial factories and workshops supplying the British War ...ARTV01649