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

  • The War in Maida Vale : 'There Is Life in the Old Dogs Yet' The War in Maida Vale : 'There Is Life in the Old Dogs Yet'

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

    image: A group of elderly home guards stand outside a pub watching a blonde girl weraing a black suit walk by.

  • You Never Know Who's Listening - Careless Talk Costs Lives You Never Know Who's Listening - Careless Talk Costs Lives

    (posters) Made by: Ministry of Information (publisher/sponsor) 1942

    image: A cartoon of two women sitting on a bus having a conversation, overheard by Himmler and Goering sitting in the seat behind. text: You never know who's listening! - CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES

  • Arm Him Arm Him

    (posters) Made by: Stafford and Co, Netherfield, Nottingham (printer)

    whole: the image is positioned lower right, with text, in black, placed in the top left. A large black arrow below the text and to the left points down towards the image. All is set against a plain white background. image: a British soldier, standing...

  • WAAF's at Salisbury WAAF's at Salisbury

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: A view along the pavement of a street in Salisbury. A middle-aged officer in uniform and holding a swagger-stick stops to look at two passing WAAF's in uniform. As the women walk on, they too turn their heads to glance back at him.

  • Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land

    (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1942

    image: View across an onion field in autumn with sixteen Italian prisoners-of-war gathering in the crop, supervised by a single British soldier at the near edge of the field. The PoWs are wearing clothing marked with a distinctive red spot on the jackets...

  • Better Pot Luck Than Humble Pie - Don't Waste Food! Better Pot Luck Than Humble Pie - Don't Waste Food!

    (posters) Made by: Unknown

    whole: The images are positioned in the upper left and lower right, with text in black and red incorporated above, between, below and alongside the two images. image: In the upper half a caricature of the head of Churchill as a lidded casserole,...

  • A Day with the Home Guard: the battle rages for the Bank of England A Day with the Home Guard: the battle rages for the Bank of England

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

    image: seen from the junction of Cornhill and Lothbury Street, a close engagement is in progress, with smoke in the background. Amid fierce action, confused civilians are still emerging from the Tube. To the right another remonstrates with a soldier who...

  • Let's Speed the Things We Make (for Hitler's Birthday Cake!) Let's Speed the Things We Make (for Hitler's Birthday Cake!)

    (posters) Made by: Shaw (artist) 1942

    design: caricature of Hitler sitting in a child's highchair with a birthday cake on a table in front of him. The cake is covered with candles and models of aircraft and is marked "RAF". He is holding an inscribed birthday card. text: Let's speed the...

  • The War in Maida Vale: 'If they only knew what they looked like' The War in Maida Vale: 'If they only knew what they looked like'

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

    image: Two women standing in a street, smoking and wearing trousers, their hair done up in scarves. There is a park in background.