The National Archives is hosting a gorgeous online gallery of British propaganda from World War 2. Although the usual war effort posters are well represented (usually featuring golden haired maidens ...
The expression “loose lips sink ships,” has become part of the American popular lexicon, almost as common as other expressions such as “going cold Turkey,” or “pitching in.” Despite its humorous ...
"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...
He volunteered for Submarine Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, ca. 1944. Staff Writer Though some wartime propaganda art has since become iconic, plenty of posters from the World War II era ...
A rare collection of propaganda posters from the Second World War is going up for auction for £10,000. Some of the 150 posters, designed to enlist the public’s help in the war effort, never made it ...
Keep calm and carry on: a quintessentially British phrase that has been exported and imprinted the world over. But before becoming a viral meme, this remnant of World War II was first overlooked and ...
If you lived through the 1930s and 1940s and had an interest in the world around you, you may have been aware that political, military, and media leaders used elements of drama and social psychology ...