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WW1 poster

The collection is particularly rich in European posters of the First World War and there is a substantial amount of British, Commonwealth and American material from the Second World War.

Posters of Conflict Digitisation Project
In 2002 Manchester Metropolitan University were awarded a grant to work with the Imperial War Museum on a three-year project to catalogue, digitally photograph and publish online 10,000 posters from the Museum's internationally important collection. This project was successfully concluded in 2006.

Posters from our collection can be viewed through the Museum’s Collections Online or at AHDS Visual Arts.  This includes our Spanish Civil War Posters, the largest public holding of such posters in the UK.