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1. "Together"

Creator / Contributor:
William Little
Date Created / Date Issued:
1941-08
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
This image shows Commonwealth servicemen marching together as one displaying both strength and unity.
Type:
image
Topic:
Stories of Courage
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

2. [Eleven smiling servicemen]

Creator / Contributor:
unknown.
Date Created / Date Issued:
Post-1941
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
Eleven smiling servicemen bearing national flags, including those of the USA and the Soviet Union.
Type:
image
Topic:
Stories of Courage
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

3. “Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Girl”

Creator / Contributor:
Abram Games
Date Created / Date Issued:
1941-11
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
Recruitment poster for the ATS.
Type:
image
Topic:
Women
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

4. “Dig On for Victory”

Creator / Contributor:
Peter Fraser
Date Created / Date Issued:
1940s
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
Food production poster.
Type:
image
Topic:
Rationing
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

5. “Dig On for Victory”

Creator / Contributor:
Peter Fraser
Date Created / Date Issued:
1940s
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
Food production poster.
Type:
image
Topic:
Rationing
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)

6. “Dig for Plenty”

Creator / Contributor:
Le Bon
Date Created / Date Issued:
1944
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
Food production poster extolling the benefits of growing one's own nutritious food in a time of shortage.
Type:
image
Topic:
Rationing
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

7. “For a Healthy, Happy Job, Join the Women’s Land Army”

Creator / Contributor:
Clive Uptton
Date Created / Date Issued:
circa-1940
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
Recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army.
Type:
image
Topic:
Women
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

8. “Keep Calm...,Your Courage..., Freedom is in Peril...”

Creator / Contributor:
Great Britain. Ministry of Information.
Date Created / Date Issued:
1939
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
A series of three posters issued in the event of war. The designs were never officially issued so few originals can be found. Some in the government felt that the posters were not inspiring and were even annoying to the British people as the posters would “seem to doubt the steadiness of their nerves.”
Type:
image
Topic:
Morale
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

9. “Up Housewives and at ‘Em!”

Creator / Contributor:
Yates-Wilson
Date Created / Date Issued:
1940
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
Housewives were asked to increase the saving of their household scrap which could be recycled to make armaments.
Type:
image
Topic:
Salvage
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain

10. “Women of Britain, Come Into the Factories”

Creator / Contributor:
Donald Zec
Date Created / Date Issued:
1941-12
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
Public Domain
Description:
This poster was used to help recruit British women into war work to bolster production for the war effort.
Type:
image
Topic:
Women
Owning Repository:
© The National Archives (TNA)
Place Name:
Great Britain