Britain
Propaganda posters from the United Kingdom.
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The Great Sacrifice (British print, 1914)
Text: NA. Year: December 1914. Publisher: The Graphic. Artist: James Clark. Additional information: British print showing Christ looking down from the cross upon a dead soldier. The illustration was printed by ‘The Graphic’, a London-based newspaper that included the print in its Christmas issue with a caption from John 15:13: ‘Greater love hath no man…
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Freedom ’74 (Irish Republican poster, 1974)
Text: Freedom ’74. A quote by Irish revolutionary Padraig Pearse is printed at the bottom: ‘… and we are young. And God has given us strength, courage and counsel. He will give us victory’. Year: 1974. Publisher: NA. Additional information: Design shows prisoners breaking out of a burning prison while a silhouette of a Republican…
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Thatchers hit men (British magazine, 1988)
Text: Thatchers hit men. Year: October 1988. Publisher: NA. Artist: NA. Additional information: The cover design of the ‘Troops Out’ newspaper from October 1988 features an SAS soldier, likely related to Operation Flavius, an SAS operation in Gibraltar in March of that year in which three Irish Republicans were shot. ‘Troops Out’ was the official…
