Your Country Needs You! Propaganda and recruitment
Explore how advertising and propaganda work, particularly focusing on recruitment campaigns of the First World War.
What techniques could you use to recruit soldiers in the First World War?
Advertising affects our everyday lives, the decisions we make and the products we buy. Learners get the chance to discuss how images and words work together, and to identify key propaganda themes.
This session is 60 minutes long and includes:
- Historic photographs
- First World War propaganda posters
- Group discussion
- Team working
- Peer-to-peer learning
- Group presentation
- Gallery visit and related trail (optional)
Curriculum areas:
- History
- English
