Posters Gallery

Fluffy Sheltie Dog Looking Wistful

Double-coated Shetland Sheepdog with such beguiling eyes. The Shetland Sheepdog, also known as the Sheltie, is a breed of herding dog. The original name of this breed was Shetland Collie, but this caused controversy among the Rough Collie breeders at the time, so the breed's name was formally changed to Shetland Sheepdog

© Wes Eggins

Fragments magazine poster by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1919

Poster advertising Fragments magazine, published by The Bystander and edited and contributed to by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather whose cartoons in the Bystander during the First World War were hugely popular. Price at 2d., Fragments was aimed at an ex-serviceman readership and boasted a circulation of 7 million within a few months of its launch. His character, Old Bill is pictured in a sailor suit asking, "Are ye comin to see the Prince off, Bert?" Bert was one of Old Bill's sidekicks in the trenches and his comment is about the Prince of Wales tour to North America that year. Date: 1919

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Y Darn Papur

Y Darn Papur. Recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee as Poster No. 15. Welsh version of The Scrap of Paper - Prussia's Perfidy'. One of thirteen printed posters produced in Britain between August 1914 - March 1916. Date: 1914

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

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