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• War Weapons Week in a Country Town

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: A street scene in a small town. A brass band, Girl Guides, Police and Home Guard participate in War Weapons Week outside a community hall and are watched by a crowd of civilians. Union flags are on display and a speech is being made from a...

• Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: Two Home Guards inside a small wooden hut, brewing tea by candlelight.

• 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.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Storming an Enemy Post

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

  image: A country lane with a group of home guards rushing along. They are turning a corner, through a gate next to a small low building. There is one man, further down the lane, lagging behind.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Advance on the First Objective

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

  image: A group of Home Guards moving through parkland towards a large house. The men at the front, near the house, are lying on the ground while the others appear to be running.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: The Commandant Lets Off One Of His Crackers

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

  image: In the foreground we see the side of a shed and four uniformed men hiding behind it. To the left of this is an open area in the centre of which is a smoking cracker on the floor. Men run away from it in all directions.

• A Day with the Home Guard : Home Guards advancing under a bridge on the river Front

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

  image: A group of home guards sneaking around a corner at the bottom of a flight of steps, holding their rifles with caution. Their leader is kneeling, holding a smoking canister in the air.

• A Day with the Home Guard : a landing party

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

  image: Uniformed men are seen jumping from a boat and climbing up a harbour wall. In the background some civilians lean over the top of the wall to watch.

• 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.

• Snap into it - Men 18-19 1/2 - Home Defence

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a blue background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in red cursive script. The subtitle is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in white, set against a green...

• 'Let 'em All Come' - Home Defence Battalions

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1939

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

• Let 'em All Come - Home Defence Battalions

  (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1940

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

• Food - Don't Waste It

  (posters) Made by: F G C (artist)

  whole: the title and text are positioned across the whole, in black and in red, set against a white background. image: text only. text: Food 1 - buy it with thought 2 - cook it with care 3 - use less wheat and meat 4 - serve just enough 5 - use what is...

• Put Litter in the Basket

  (posters) Made by: A M (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper third, with the title and text separate and placed in the lower two-thirds, in black and orange. All set against a white background. image: a full-length depiction of a well-dressed man dropping an empty...

• Music - The Mosaic of the Air

  (posters) Made by: T M (artist) 1946-06

  whole: the eight images occupy the majority. The title is partially integrated and positioned in the upper fifth, in black outlined white, and in black, held within a decorative blue inset. The text is separate and placed at the centre and upper centre,...

• A Battery Shelled

  (art) Made by: Lewis, Percy Wyndham 1919

  image: Three officers stand to the left of the composition beside a pile of ammunition boxes. Each looks in a different direction. One has his back to the viewer and looks out over the scene of the painting. There are marionette-like figures moving over...

• The Ypres Salient at Night

  (art) Made by: Nash, Paul (artist) 1918

  image: A night scene showing three soldiers on the fire step of a trench surprised by a brilliant star shell lighting up the view over the battlefield. On the left there is a flooded shell-hole, beyond which stand three other soldiers, overlooked by a...

• Gassed

  (art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1919

  image: A side on view of a line of soldiers being led along a duckboard by a medical orderly. Their eyes are bandaged as a result of exposure to gas and each man holds on to the shoulder of the man in front. One of the line has his leg raised in an...

• The British Sovereign will Win

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1915-07

  whole: the image occupies the top third, with the title and text below banner form. image: a shilling, sovereign side up, showing the head of George V. text: THE BRITISH SOVEREIGN WILL WIN INVEST IN THE WAR LOAN TO-DAY ASK FOR DETAILS AT NEAREST POST...

• One Pound for 15 Shillings and Sixpence

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1916

  whole: the title is placed across the top, with the subtitle across the bottom, both in blue. Further text is in blue. All held within a blue frame and set against a white background. image: text only. text: £1 FOR 15s 6d TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF...

• 'Let Us Go Forward Together'

  (posters) Made by: Keely, Pat (artist) 1943

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters, with two smaller images located in the lower quarter. The title is partially integrated and placed in the lower quarter, in black. The text is separate and placed along the bottom edge, in brown...

• Captain Pauline Gower of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

  image: An image of a female pilot poised above the cockpit of a plane. She is dressed in a flying cap, goggles, and wears a shirt and tie underneath her jacket. The plane's wing struts run diagonally across the image.

• The War Refugees' Camp, Earl's Court 1918

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: In the foreground a group of refugees stand and sit underneath an archway. The group is predominantly made up of women, as well as four young children and two men, one of whom has a white beard and is lighting a pipe. In the background through the...

• 'Stand To' Before Dawn

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

  image: British infantrymen stand-to in a duckboarded trench. They lean against the parapet looking over the breastworks into No Man's Land, with their rifles beside them. There are two large puffs of smoke from artillery fire hanging in the dawn sky to...

• Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

  image: a squared up preparatory drawing for the oil painting 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656). On the left, a red earth trench lined with duckboards stretches away from the viewer. A group of soldiers clamber from the trench, going 'over the top'. Two lie...

• Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243)

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1917

  image: a squared up preparatory drawing for John Nash's painting 'Oppy Wood'. The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out to the right. Two British infantrymen stand on the firestep to the left,...

• Some Civilian Casualties at the Main Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance, Flines-les-Raches, October 1918

  (art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918

  image: The interior of a large room with soldiers and civilians seated on a bench. Many of the soldiers have bandaged limbs. They are all waiting to be attended to by the medical orderly, who is dressing the foot of an elderly civilian holding a young...

• The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916

  (art) Made by: Sims, Charles (RA) 1919

  image: A view across a battle scarred landscape in northern France. In the foreground are the remains of the old German front line, with the remains of dugouts, trenches and shell craters in the chalky soil in the foreground. In the distance are fields...

• Study for 'Stand To' before Dawn. (No 1160)

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA)

  image: a squared up study of five British infantrymen at 'Stand To' in a front line trench at dawn. Four of the men stand on the firestep, carefully looking over the parapet towards No Man's Land. One of the men, in the centre, stands lower down in a...

• No

  (posters) Made by: McLaren, Ian (artist) 1967

  image: The cloud of a nuclear bomb after it has been detonated in the sea. Printed in jet black on a very white paper. Top third of image. The rest is text. text: NO. 1 Polaris = 4 new universities 1 V-bomber = 7 new schools 1 aircraft carrier = 2 new...

• WVS Settlement, Fairford. Ivor Tully, an evacuee from Barking

  (art) Made by: Allan, Rosemary

  image: A young boy sits on a chair, looking out of the frame towards the right. He is wearing wellingtons and shorts and appears to be in a domestic setting.

• The 'L' Press. Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun: Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw, 1918

  (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

  image: The interior view of a munitions factory showing the manufacture of 18' guns with munition workers. A figure in suit and bowler hat stands in the foreground. There is a warm orange light spread over the scene emitted from the forge in the right of...

• Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmen

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: a group of stylised figures installing communication lines outside a Brigade Headquarters housed in a dugout. Light shines down on the scene from the left illuminating one side of the figures.

• Rosieres Valley, 1918

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: the figures of four stylised signallers laying a wire across a heavily battle-scarred landscape. Clouds of dark smoke billow from the ground not far away. There is a village on the horizon in the distance, and another in the valley beyond the...

• During a Battle

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: three British soldiers in yellow stand on a mound while a field gun pulled by horses moves past. A stretcher party bearing a figure in yellow walks out of the composition to the right and an infantryman of the Royal Scots Fusiliers stands guard in...

• Gunners. Turning Out for an SOS. Battery action at night

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: a group of gunners of the Royal Field Artillery hurriedly emerging from a dugout, still dressing as they run towards a battery firing into the distance. A Sergeant stands to the left of the composition, holding a torch in his hand shining down at...

• Signallers

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: a scene with six British signallers laying a wire in a trench. The two men in the centre appear to be shouting at one another, perhaps as a result of the noise of artillery fire, and the others look on, transfixed in their pose. A wounded man lies...

• The Menin Road

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1917

  image: a view down the Menin Road in the Ypres sector of the Western Front. Two small columns of British troops march along the road, the foremost comprised of men of the Royal Field Artillery. Two ambulance trucks drive ahead of them. Alongside the road...

• The Control-room at South West Regional Headquarters, Bristol

  (art) Made by: Piper, John (CH) 1940

  image: a room lit by electric light. On the right hand wall is an abstract map, with areas marked with numbers and letters. On the adjacent wall are more symbols, another smaller map and a clock. In the foreground are tables with a glass and carafe.

• The Tube: October 1940

  (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-10-01

  image: The interior of Leicester Square underground station with figures lying asleep on the floor of the station platform. There is a large man sitting smoking a pipe in the foreground, and several ARP wardens wearing helmets standing further down the...

• Building Planes

  (art) Made by: Armstrong, John 1940

  image: A view across a factory floor showing men working on the sub-structure of two aircraft. In the background, other figures working at lathes and machinery are spotlighted on the upper and lower floors of the factory.

• Women's War Services - An Exhibition

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918-02

  whole: the title and text occupy the whole, in black and in red, set against a white background and held within a black border. image: text only. text: Copy as printed. For information only [ink stamp] WOMEN'S WAR SERVICES WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS...

• Royal Flying Corps

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1917-12

  whole: the title is positioned across the top edge, in red, with the text below occupying the remainder, in black and in red. All set against a white background. image: text only. text: ROYAL FLYING CORPS. A MEETING WILL BE HELD AT [blank] LIEUT. ALSTON...

• Royal Flying Corps

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: three photographic images are positioned centre right, centre left and lower centre, each held within narrow black borders. A further image is positioned upper centre. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in blue outlined...

• A Black Aeroplane on a Red Deck : Aircraft massed on the Flight Deck of "HMS Formidable"

  (art) Made by: Rosoman, Leonard Henry (RA)

  image: several Corsair fighter aircraft and one Avenger, all with folded wings, stand on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Only the horizon is visible in the background.

• 'Angry Aeroplanes': Two Avengers on the Flight Deck of "HMS Formidable"

  (art) Made by: Rosoman, Leonard Henry (RA)

  image: Two dark-coloured machines with circular shaped wings and their landing wheels down, set against a mottled terracotta coloured background.

• Anglo Dutch

  (art) Made by: Tunnard, John 1942

  image: An abstract image of technological and maritime forms. There is an area of deep red colour on the left of the composition, and a dark hook shape as seen from the side in the centre. Around this there are other small, abstract details.

• A Knitting Party

  (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1940

  image: A large room with a party of women sitting in chairs and knitting

• Sergeant R G Arding

  (art) Made by: Kennington, Eric Henri (RA) 1941

  image: a half-length portrait of an airman just back from a raid on enemy shipping. He stands in profile looking out to the right of the composition. He is wearing a white flying suit, with a shirt and tie underneath, and holds a leather helmet in his...

• Landscape with Flowering Trees, 1911-1912

  (art) Made by: Rosenberg, Isaac 1911

  image: A countryside scene with a village and a tree in the left foreground.