Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, aunque a los jóvenes les suena raro, no había ni internet y la BBC no emitió nada por televisión, así que la propaganda y los mensajes patrióticos tenían que difundirse por la radio o en carteles en las calles.

Este mes ha salido a subasta una gran colección de carteles originales de ese periodo, del estudio que los produció: Bayly-Souter.

Los mensajes eran diversos, desde consejos para ahorrar, pasando por indirectas diciendo que al no hacer nada se ayudaba a Hitler y llegando a glamurosos.

Esta es una pequeña selección, espero que os guste:

‘You Can’t Be Too Careful’ by Norman Hepple for the National Fire Service in 1944.

Hitler depitcted in red and black.

Poster for the Ministry of Aircraft Production.

Design issued by the Ministry of Food urging people to be frugal with food

‘Blonde Bombshell’, an ATS Recruitment Poster by Abram Games. The poster was withdrawn in 1941 for being ‘too glamorous’.

A poster, by Frank Wootton, showing a British Spitfire shooting down a German Heinkel bomber in the Middle East.

British Commonwealth troops march in unison before a union jack flag, printed for HM Stationary Office.

A poster designed by Owen Miller for the Ministry of Aircraft Production.

This original artwork poster was issued by the Department for National Savings, and was used in a 1946 campaign.

Artwork celebrating the work of the Merchant Navy, by Charles Wood.