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WW1 posters and songs / Culture Street 'National Service Women's Land Army'. Issued 1917 A World War I recruitment poster for the Women's Land Army, showing a woman guiding a horse-drawn plough. Signed 'H.G. Gawthorn’. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O173768/national-service-womens-land-army-poster-gawthorn-henry-george/ Copyright: © V&A Images.

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'National Service Women's Land Army'. !Issued 1917!A World War I recruitment poster for the Women's Land Army, showing a woman guiding a horse-drawn plough. Signed 'H.G. Gawthorn’. !!http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O173768/national-service-womens-land-army-poster-gawthorn-henry-george/!Copyright: © V&A Images.

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Women of Britain say ‘Go!’!Created: 1914!Poster held by: British Library!!http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/women-britain-say-go!Copyright: © British Library

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Who's absent? Is it you?!Poster showing John Bull pointing and addressing the viewer, with burning buildings and a line of soldiers with gaps in the background. Printed by Andrew Reid & Co., Ltd. Newcastle-on-Tyne.!Date! 1915!!http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Who's_absent%3F_Is_it_you%3F_LCCN2003675386.jpg#filelinks

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THE KITCHEN IS THE KEY TO VICTORY EAT LESS BREAD !Food Controller Poster No.22. !Unknown (artist), Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd, London (printer)!!http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/28676

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Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?!Created: 1914-1915 The War Office !Held by: British Library!!http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/daddy-what-did-you-do-in-great-war!

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Here's Your Chance - It's Men We Want![Canada], [between 1914 and 1918]!Creator unknown. Archives of Ontario War Poster Collection!!http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/posters/recruitment.aspx

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'Your country needs you' !Published London Opinion: 5 September 1914!Designed by Alfred Leete (1882–1933), and famous for Kitchener’s pointing finger and the words ‘Your Country Needs You’, has become an icon of the enlistment frenzy. However, it did not appear in poster form until the end of September 1914, after signing-up peaked. Its supposedly vital influence on recruitment is largely a myth.!

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Remember Belgium--Enlist to-day!Henry Jenkinson Ltd, Leeds.!Published: 1915!Poster showing a soldier standing defiant as a woman and child flee a burning village.!

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Young men of Britain! The Germans said you were not in earnest. "We knew you'd come - and give them the lie!" Play the greater game and join the football battalion !Football Battalion Poster!Designed and printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd, London!Published: 1915!Poster showing soldiers firing from a trench, and a vignette of players on a soccer field.!

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WW1 posters and songs / Culture Street