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"Women of Britain Say 'Go! '" was produced in March 1915.It was printed by Hill, Siffken and Co Ltd, London, and published by the Parliamentary Recruitment Committee, [7] who produced the majority of the early recruitment posters in World War I. [8] It was one of a collection of posters commissioned by the Committee which were targeted towards women. [9]
Thus, when the war began, the government spread patriotic propaganda to women all over the empire through the women's committees. [51] Propaganda encouraged women to enter the workforce, both to support the Empire and to become self-sufficient by state-sanctioned work that was specified for women. [51] American war propaganda often featured ...
Propaganda, in the form of posters to encouraged women to work in factories, did not show the more dangerous aspects of wartime labour conditions, [32] but appealed to women to join the workforce and play their part in the war. Other posters were designed to encourage women to persuade their men to join the armed forces.
The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. Annapolis, MD: The Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-203-2. Frahm, Jill. "The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3#3 (2004): 271–293. online
In the First World War, British propaganda took various forms, including pictures, literature and film. Britain also placed significant emphasis on atrocity propaganda as a way of mobilising public opinion against Imperial Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War. [1] For the global picture, see Propaganda in World War I.
The Women's Peace Crusade met with a great deal of opposition from both the government and the media. The right-wing Morning Post described the movement as "one of the most active and pernicious propaganda organisations in the country". On 11 August 1917, a march of 1,200 women in Lancashire was met with a great deal of hostility.
The Committee on Public Information (1917–1919), also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States under the Wilson administration created to influence public opinion to support the US in World War I, in particular, the US home front.
The white feather is a widely recognised propaganda symbol. [1] [2] It has, among other things, represented cowardice or conscientious pacifism; as in A. E. W. Mason's 1902 book The Four Feathers. In Britain during the First World War it was often given to men out of uniform by women to shame them publicly into signing up. In the United States ...