Postcards and spuds!
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SOS Short of Sugar, Short of Spuds
During World War l, a large number of postcards were printed and published for propaganda purposes bearing a clear message reinforcing Government information campaigns. Post cards typically focused on one specific theme usually to evoke powerful and intense feelings.
Popular themes included tragedy, patriotism, humour, recruits, nationalism, ridicule of the enemy, glory, romance, love of children, trust in God, animals and soldiers, suffering and sacrifice, hardship and heroism. Very few showed dead or injured British or Empire soldiers (Laffin 1998). This and other postcards in this gallery show great concern for the lack of availability of potatoes during World War I.
