Use Your Head

By: Charlotte Lydia Riley

Labour's election posters from the first half of the twentieth century offer a glimpse into the better world it promised working people.

Bristish citizens read campaign posters for the general election. (Photo by Ian Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Let’s go with Labour and we’ll get things done Remember unemployment? Don’t give the Tories another chance. Vote Labour Let’s have a better Britain. Vote Labour. The posters designed for the 1945 election might be some of Labour’s most famous campaign materials. They show a series of idealised, individual Labour voters: the old woman, the […]

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Let’s go with Labour and we’ll get things done Remember unemployment? Don’t give the Tories another chance. Vote Labour Let’s have a better Britain. Vote Labour. The posters designed for the 1945 election might be some of Labour’s most famous campaign materials. They show a series of idealised, individual Labour voters: the old woman, the […]

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Let’s go with Labour and we’ll get things done Remember unemployment? Don’t give the Tories another chance. Vote Labour Let’s have a better Britain. Vote Labour. The posters designed for the 1945 election might be some of Labour’s most famous campaign materials. They show a series of idealised, individual Labour voters: the old woman, the […]

Let’s go with Labour and we’ll get things done Remember unemployment? Don’t give the Tories another chance. Vote Labour Let’s have a better Britain. Vote Labour. The posters designed for the 1945 election might be some of Labour’s most famous campaign materials. They show a series of idealised, individual Labour voters: the old woman, the […]

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