Talk:British propaganda during World War II

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As we have a page about British propaganda in WWII, wouldn't it be worth creating one on British propaganda campaigns in the First World War? Swedish fusilier (talk) 07:37, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Lead image

Does anyone know anything about the lead image in the article? It's one I haven't come across before, and with its very un-British use of the word "Britishers" I suspect it was only used in the USA. (There is a small street called Bromfield Street in London, but the one in Boston seems much more likely.) If I'm right, then (a) it should explain the context in which it was used in the caption; and (b) it doesn't seem appropriate for the lead image, when other posters achieved much wider circulation. GrindtXX (talk) 23:33, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

The word "Britisher" may not be heard much nowadays in Britain, but it was used back in WWII. e.g. Harry Champion "Any Old Iron". Start listening from around 01:52 in that video (to get the context) and the word itself is used at 01:59 or so. Rept0n1x (talk) 20:16, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid it's a FIRST World War image, and, more than that, American: http://www.loc.gov/item/2001700438/ I've removed it accordingly. It is, at least, based on a British original design [1], from 1915 - but, anyway, it's NOT WWII, so... Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:11, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Propaganda vs motivational

I would like to see that the lede is expanded and the definitions of Motivational posters and Propaganda be clearly defined. At the moment there appears an uncomfortable ignorance on the part of some contributing Eds to this whole area. These confusions can potentially cause warring and Editorial friction. An example of this is that of the recently rediscovered Keep Calm And Carry On. This and the two others in the series seem quite clearly NOT to be propagandistic. There is no unbalanced presentation of an argument in any of them, and no attempt to spin potentially contentious arguments. These I would argue are the classic ingredients of a propagandist work. They are in fact what would be now confidently described as Motivational posters This species of distributed information is primarily designed to achieve a positive behaviour modification on the part of the reader. All three of the April 1939 motivational posters trio were designed to create a positive modification of the population in behaviours and morale which would be generally beneficial to the Country and "consumer" in affirming and reinforcing useful attitudes in terms of behaviours to the population at large. Not one of them is actually "Propaganda" in the sense of a potentially controversial view or new tactic which required spinning and careful presentational arguments, as for instance Bomber Commands "De-housing" i.e area bombing programme would require extensive and increasingly blatant propagandistic reinforcement from late 1941 onwards. That the propagandistic element was significantly and from an early period given strong arguments (including several major UK films on BC), although area bombing per se was not discussed in them indicates that there was a considerable moral and ethical unease in many sections of the country and Parliament in the increasingly explicit city busting "campaigns" of 1942 and 43-44 Irondome (talk) 19:43, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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