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drbexl — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:42:57 +0000

The British landscape and representations of it in art give rise to a happy patriotic glow in many people. Fred Inglis shares that fervour

Is it still possible to claim oneself, in polite academic company, to be a patriot? Both the present and the previous prime ministers have gestured, a bit apologetically but I think sincerely, towards such a frame of mind for themselves and even for their parties. Everyone is at pains to dissociate themselves, of course, from the more horrible forms of chauvinism as displayed by the British National Party, but a mild form of non-aggressive nationalism is common in Scotland and Wales, much qualified in the North by the failures and disgrace of the national banks. Explicit and boisterous patriotism is pretty well confined to sport, as witness all those cars flying the cross of St George during the recent Fifa World Cup.

Patriotism is not, absolutely not, a configuration of emotions and thoughts to be measured by attitude survey. It is too submarine and inarticulate in Britain to command a sufficient rhetoric for colloquial expression. Even at high-water moments of history – 1914, 1940 – patriotic language tended, as George Orwell pointed out 70 years ago, to commemorate defeats and to be undercut by the truculent bawdy of the marching songs as well as by brutal scepticism.

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Poster Collection for Sale

drbexl — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:06:29 +0000

I wondered about keeping this quiet, as I would LOVE to own my own original poster, but it’s in the Daily Mail, and I was contacted by BBC South-East Today on Tuesday as they were covering a story on it (I missed out on contributing as I was organising a training session all day). If you want to find out more about the sale, visit the website of the auctioneers. Timing is interesting, that as Keep Calm and Carry On has become HUGE, that there’s one in this collection… I’m always too sceptical though!

Richard Slocombe, of the Imperial War Museums says “We’ve all heard about the ubiquity of Keep Calm and Carry On. But ironically that poster was never actually published. Mainly because its two sister posters – Freedom Is In Peril and Your Courage Will Bring Us Victory were seen as being patronising and condescending.” That was a suggestion I have made, but there’s no evidence as to WHY Keep Calm and Carry On was never actually used!

List of Pictorial Illustrations

drbexl — Sat, 03 May 1997 09:21:19 +0000

Due to a desire by the Ministry of Information (MoI) to remain anonymous information concerning Second World War posters is very scanty, with dates and details of artists rarely available.

Unless otherwise stated, posters are British, and seen/assumed to be the most common size: 20″ x 30″, with reproductions taken from postcards or IWM copies. STILL IN PROGRESS

Fig.		Title
1		‘Britons [Kitchener] wants YOU’ Date: 1914-1916 Artist: Alfred Leete (1882-1933) Printer: Victoria House Printing Co. Ltd., London Size: 29^1/2” x 20″ Source: IWM PST 2734
2		‘Klinom Krasnym bei Belykh’ (Beat the Whites with the Red wedge) Origin: U.S.S.R., 1919 Artist: El Lissitsky Source: Lissitsky, K. El Lissitsky, 1968, Plate 4
3		‘Udarnuiu uborku bol’shevistskomu urozhaiu’ (For shock-brigade reaping and for a Bolshevik harvest) Origin: U.S.S.R., 1934 Artist: Maria Voron Size: 41″ x 28″ Source: (Hoover Institution Archives: RU/SU 1611) in Paret, P., Lewis, B.I., and Paret, P. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution, 1992, p115
4		‘Und Du? (And you?) Origin: Germany, 1932 Artist: Ludwig Hohlwein Size: 34″ x24″ Source: (Hoover Institution Archives: GE1694) in Paret, P., Lewis, B.I., and Paret, P. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution, 1992, p109
5		‘Pneumatik’ Origin: Germany, 1926 Artist: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Source: Kostelanetz, R. (ed) Moholy-Nagy, 1970, Plate 27
6		C over for Bauhaus no. 1 Date: 1928 Origin: Germany Artist: Herbert Bayer Source: Willett, J. The Weimar Years: a culture cut short, 1984, p45
7		‘Hitler will send no warning – so always carry your gas mask’ Date: 1941 Printer: J. Weiner Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 0415 (Opie, R. The Wartime Scrapbook: from Blitz to Victory, 1995, p10)
8		‘Gas Attack’ Date: 1941 Printer: Fosh and Cross Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 0136 (MO-A: Poster Inventory)
9		‘Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution, will bring us victory’ Date: 1939 Source: IWM PST 0052 (Hunt, J. and Watson, S. Britain and the Two World Wars, 1990, p124)
10		‘Go to it!’ Printer: Perry Colourprint, London Source: IWM PST 0661
11		‘Mightier Yet’ Artist: Harold Pym Printer: Greycaine Ltd, London Source: IWM PST 4086
12		‘Firebomb Fritz’ Printers: Fosh and Cross Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 0199
13		‘L et your shopping help our shipping’ Printer: J. Weiner Ltd., London Size: 10″ x 15″ Source: IWM PST 0708 (Briggs, S. Keep Smiling Through, 1975, p155)
14		‘Dig for Victory’ Printer: J. Weiner Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 0059
15		‘Your Britain, Fight for it now’ Date: 1942 Artist: Frank Newbould (1887-1951) Printer: Adams Bros and Shardlow, Ltd. Size: 19^7/8” x 29^3/4” Source: IWM PST 0069
16		‘Y our Britain, Fight for it now’ (Finsbury Health Centre) Date: 1942 Artist: Abram Games Printer: Henry Hildesley Ltd., London Size: 19^7/8” x 29^5/16” Source: IWM PST 2911
17		‘In spite of [Hitler] there’s work to be done Source: Begley, G. Keep Mum: Advertising Goes to War, 1975, p28
18		‘….. but of course it mustn’t go any further!’ Date: 1940 Artist: Fougasse Size: 24″ x 40″ Source: IWM PST 3725 (M-O A: Poster Inventory)
19		‘Nazi War Aims – Grab! Grab!! Grab!!!’ Size: 20″ x 14^1/2” Source: IWM PST 8151
20		‘T he Red Army’s Fight is Your Fight’ Date: 1941 Source: Freeman, R.A. Britain at War, 1990, p55
21		‘The Moscow Standard’ Source: H.M.S.O. Persuading the People, 1995, p78
22		‘Russia’s Fight is Ours!’ Printer: William Brown and Co. Ltd., London Size: 39^3/4” x 19^3/8” Source: PRO, INF 13/123/19 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 43)
23		‘Maneater’ Source: IWM PST 0176
24		‘You never know who’s listening!’ Date: 1940 Artist: Fougasse Size: 12^1/2” x 8″ Source: IWM PST 0142 (Darracott, J. and Loftus, B. (Imperial War Museum) Second World War Posters, 1972, p28)
25		‘W HEN? it’s up to us!’ Date: 1941 Source: Marshall Cavendish Collection, Images of War, 1996
26		‘Women of Britain, arm him’ Printer: Stafford and Co. Ltd., Nottingham Source: IWM PST 3378
27		‘Women of Britain, Come Into the Factories’ Artist: Zec Printer: Lowe and Brydone, London Source: IWM PST 3645
28		‘Cover your hair for safety. Your Russian sister does!’ Printer: Loxley Bros Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 3151 (McLaine, I. Ministry of Morale: Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War Two, 1979, Plate 10)
29		‘Keep on Saving’ Printer: Chromoworks Ltd., London Size: 59^1/2” x 39^3/4” Source: PRO, NSC 5/139 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 65)
30		‘Together!’ Date: Passed for publication 22/8/41 Printer: Lowe and Brydone, London Source: IWM PST 3158 and PRO, INF 2/3/277 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 37)
31		‘Combined Operations Include You’ Artist: Harold Pym Printer: Chromoworks Ltd., London Size: 29^3/4” x 19^3/4” Source: PRO, INF 13/122/21 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 44)
32		‘Dig on for Victory’ Artist: Peter Fraser Source: PRO, INF 3/96
33		‘Is your journey really necessary?’ Date: 1942-1944 Artist: Bert Thomas Printer: Haycock Press, London Size: 24^3/4” x 19^3/4” Source: IWM PST 0144 and PRO, AN 2/1126
34		‘Deserve Victory’ Publisher: Graham and Gillies Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 3107
35		‘Coughs and sneezes spread diseases’ Date: Early 1942 Artist: H.M. Bateman Printer: Chromoworks Ltd., London Size: 28^13/16” x 19^11/16” Source: IWM PST 3429
36		‘Turn this raw material into war material’ Printer: W.E. Berry Ltd., Bradford Source: IWM PST 3757
37		‘Paper, Metal, Bones, Rags and Rubber for Salvage’ Artist: Fougasse Printer: Flemings, Leicester Size: 40″ x 24″ Source: IWM PST 3702
38		‘A few careless words may end in this’ Date: c.1940 Artist: Norman Wilkinson Printer: Greycaine Ltd., Watford and London Size: 20″ x 14^7/8” Source: IWM PST 0740 and PRO, INF 13/216/3 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 20)
39		‘They talked…’ Printer: J. Weiner Ltd., London Size: 9^1/2” x 14″ Source: IWM PST 0709 (Life, 30/11/40, from a selection of newspaper cuttings, collected by E. Embleton 1939-1946, held at the Imperial War Museum)
40		‘She talked…’ Printer: Fosh and Cross Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 5239 (Life, 30/11/40, from a selection of newspaper cuttings, collected by E. Embleton 1939-1946, held at the Imperial War Museum)
41		‘He talked…’ Source: Life, 30/11/40, from a selection of newspaper cuttings, collected by E. Embleton 1939-1946, held at the Imperial War Museum
42		‘ATS at the wheel’ Artist: Beverley Pick Printer: Field Sons and Co., Bradford Size: 29^1/4” x 19^1/4” Source: IWM PST 4946 and PRO, INF 13/42/8
43		‘Go through your wardrobe’ Artist: Donia Nachshen Printer: W.R. Royle and Sons Ltd., London Size: 29^3/4” x 19^3/4” Source: IWM PST 4773 and PRO, INF 13/144/1
44		‘Join the ATS’ Date: 1941 Artist: Abram Games Printer: Fosh and Cross Ltd, London Size: 28^3/4” x 19^1/16” Source: IWM PST 5207
45		‘YOU are wanted too! Join the A.T.S’ Date: 1941 Source: Sunday Express, 26/10/41 from a selection of newspaper cuttings, collected by E. Embleton 1939-1946, held at the Imperial War Museum
46		‘Lend a hand on the land at a farming holiday camp’ Artist: Eileen Evans Printer: Chromoworks Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 0143
47		‘Join the Women’s Land Army’ Printer: Fosh and Cross Ltd, London Size: 30″ x 19^1/2” Source: PRO, INF 13/140/19 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 10)
48		‘Careless talk costs lives. Keep mum, She’s not so dumb!’ Artist: G. Lacoste Date: c.1940 Printer: Johnson, Riddle and Co. Size: 14^7/8” x 9^7/8” Source: IWM PST 2817 and PRO, EXT 1/119/20 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 19)
49		‘Careless talk costs lives. Keep mum – she’s not so dumb’ Size: 14^3/4” x 9^3/4” Source: PRO, EXT 1/119/19 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 18)
50		‘Careless talk costs lives. Tell nobody – not even her’ Size: 143/4″ x 97/8″ Source: (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 16)
51		‘Careless talk costs lives. Tell nobody – not even her’ Size: 147/8″ x 97/8″ Source: PRO, EXT 1/119/18 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 17)
52		‘Don’t tell aunty & uncle, or cousin Jane, and certainly not…’ Artist: G. Lacoste Source: IWM PST 3733
53		‘A maiden loved…’ Date: c.1939 Artist: G. Lacoste Source: IWM PST 3417
54		‘The Silent Column’ Source: McLaine, I. Ministry of Morale: Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War Two, 1979, Plate 3
55		‘Hello boy friend, coming MY way?’ Date: 1943-44 Artist: Reginald Mount Size: 13^7/8” x 9^1/4” Source: IWM PST 0800 (Cantwell, J.D. Images of War: British Posters 1939-45, 1989, Plate 35)
56		‘Here comes the bride’ Date: 1942-44 Artist: Reginald Mount Printer: W.R. Royle and Son Ltd. Size: 9^1/2” x 14″ Source: IWM PST 3417
57		‘Tomorrow’s Citizen’ Printer: Henry Hildesley Ltd., London Size: 9^1/2” x 14″ Source: IWM PST 3416
58		‘We’re playing one ‘man’ short -and that’s YOU!’ (Rejected design) Source: H.M.S.O. Persuading the People, 1995, between pp44-45
59		‘We’re playing one ‘man’ short -and that’s YOU!’ Source: H.M.S.O. Persuading the People, 1995, between pp44-45
60		‘Be in the fashion – cover your hair’ Artist: Initialled ‘aR’ Printer: Loxley Bros Ltd., London Source: IWM PST 3678
61		‘She’s in the ranks too!’ (Rejected design) Source: H.M.S.O. Persuading the People, 1995, between pp76-77
62		‘Women wanted for evacuation service’ Date: 1939 Artist: Jack Matthew Source: IWM PST 5873
63		‘If only they’d tell us all what to do.’ Date: 1942 Artist: Fougasse Source: Briggs, S. Keep Smiling Through, 1975, p94

If you wish to cite from this page, please use the following citation:

Lewis, R.M., ‘List of Pictorial Illustrations, Undergraduate Thesis: The planning, design and reception of British home front propaganda posters of the Second World War’, <URL>, written April 1997, accessed Enter Date Here

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