For the middle and upper class women, who had very few career options, the temptation of actually working to help the country appealed greatly. Many of Britain’s women worked in munitions, as clerks, or were lured into nursing by posters such as “The Greatest Mother in the World” (fig. f). Read more…
Read part one here If the “Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?” poster did not encourage, or in fact, shame, enough men to enlist, then other ways of persuasion were used, and soon, women began to appear in recruitment posters. E.V Kealey’s painting for the PRC, “Women Read more…
Prior to the outbreak of World War One, posters were a commercial luxury, with approximately £125 million being spent annually on advertising in Great Britain to influence people’s buying habits.[1] However, when the Great War was declared, the poster tripled in its importance and became a national necessity.[2] More so Read more…