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• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Enemy HQ Taken at the Point of the Bayonet

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A group of home guards are seen rushing down a country lane and turning to the right through a gate next to a house. There is one soldier lagging behind further down the lane.

• Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers

  (posters) Made by: Brookshaw, Drake (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the lower three-quarters. The title is partially integrated and positioned in the upper third, in dark blue. The text is separate and placed in the top edge left, in orange, and in the lower fifth, in black and in blue....

• Indians in Civil Defence

  (posters) Made by: Unknown

  whole: the image occupies the majority, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background and held within a...

• Housewives! WVS Needs Your Help!

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

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• Man the Barrage

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper half. The title and text are separate and located in the lower half, in red, in blue and in black, set against a white background. image: a depiction of two barrage balloons moored with cables to three motor...

• Women Wanted - as Ambulance Drivers

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the majority. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper half, in yellow with black shadowing, and in white. The text is separate and positioned in the lower fifth, in yellow, set against a black background. image: a...

• Hitler Will Send No Warning

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper half. The title and text are separate and placed in the lower two-thirds, in red, in black and in green. All set against a white background and held within a green serrated border. image: a pair of hands...

• An AA Site (Rockets)

  (art) Made by: Casson, Bernard

  image: a view through a corrugated iron arch, looking out on an anti-aircraft battery at night. In the centre of the site two men stand on the roof of a hut next to an aerial, keeping watch. They are surrounded by anti aircraft guns pointing up at the...

• Two WAAF Balloon Workers

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1941

  image: two women of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) at work on large balloons. One of the women kneels down tying a knot, surrounded by numerous threads of fine rope, the other woman lying on her side looking on. They appear to be working inside...

• Listening-post at Spyglass, Gibraltar

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: British soldiers gathered at a listening post at Spyglass, Gibraltar, looking out over the Mediterranean. The machinery of the post dominates the centre of the composition, its four cone shaped receivers facing skywards. It is incorporated on the...