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The Posters That Went to War · The Allies, 1914–1918
Men of Britain! Will You Stand This?
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, 1915
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A recruiting poster the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee issued in 1915, designed and printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London, from the Library of Congress (digital ID cph.3g11297).
Why it matters
German warships shelled Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914, and the sheet made the civilian dead and the wrecked houses a reason to enlist.
What to notice
The headline puts one question to the men of Britain over the casualties and destruction of the raid: will you stand this?
A seaside town, shelled into an argument.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Printer / house
- Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London
- Campaign
- Enlist · Remember Belgium
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London, 1915
- Source
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02: Public domain (PD-Layout, PD-UKGov, PD-UKGov/en). Title set from the words the record quotes from the sheet, Men of Britain! Will You Stand This?, in place of the vein's Remember Scarborough.
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