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A poster created for the Parliamentary Recruiting Agency. In this poster, six young men smile in their uniforms above the text "Join the brave throng that goes marching along!" This rhyming phrase would likely stick in the memory of people long…

Why the War Cannot be Final is a British pamphlet intended to convince its reader that the war will not bring finality to all international conflict. The pamphlet's author, Albert Wm. Alderson, responds to the belief that the Great War will be the…

This report details the correspondence between several ambassadors from the Allied countries who attempted to delay or prevent the execution of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who had been working in German-occupied Belgium. Cavell had been accused by…

The Special Collections at McFarlin Library is the curator of Lady Peggy Hamilton’s typescript and photos, summarizing employment of an English munition worker during the Great War. The typescript has hand written revisions throughout the…

In this English poster, boys are encouraged to enlist for the war effort. The four boys depicted in the poster are walking in perfect formation with synchronized steps and bright, smiling faces. Their bodies seem to blend together into a single…