Collection items

Booklet 'Women's effort in war time'

Booklet, Illustration

The title of this booklet translates as ‘women’s effort in wartime’, published by the European Fashion Journal. It conta...

German satirical map of Europe in 1914

Map, Illustration

A buck-toothed England looks grumpy – with Ireland growling at its back – and hesitates to mobilise its fleet. France is...

Hurray! A war picture-book for children

Book, Illustration, Children's book

These illustrations are from the children’s book Hurray! A War Picture-Book by the magazine illustrator and commercial a...

Little knitting book - Edited by the Patriotic Wom...

Book, Manual, Photograph

Work towards the war effort wasn’t only at the front line. Women at home knitted clothes to protect soldiers against icy...

Our blue-jackets: A marine album

Illustration, Drawing, Photograph

This illustrated propaganda leaflet was a humorous way of reinforcing the strength of Germany in the minds of its people...

Our enemies' lies! German propaganda toilet paper

Object

This ‘best German toilet paper’ is printed with extracts from foreign newspapers. It is a German solution to deal with t...

Pictures from the war: a colouring book for young...

Book, Illustration, Children's book

With every pencil stroke, children using this colouring book experienced the brutal everyday lives of their relatives at...

The world war in personal expressions by children:...

Essay

These essays reveal the experiences of children during World War One. In this collection of more than 150 compositions c...

War calculation tasks: modern complement to the ar...

Book

This maths problem is one of about 300 in a book dedicated to the war. Children are given a calculation using the statis...