Assess how useful sources C and D are to a historian studying WW1 propaganda. In your answer, consider perspectives provided by these sources and their reliability. Source C is written by Robert Blatchford for the newspaper Weekly Despatch and presents his view of the way Britons should treat the enemy. His main idea presented here is that all Germans living in Britain should be in gaol. The article promotes and encourages a hatred for the …
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…does not have such a strong emotional appeal as it did in later years. The poster is reliable as an example of the wartime recruitment scheme of the British. From it, one can deduce that the British needed recruitments and that propaganda posters were a way of advertising for recruitment. The source is also a useful way of showing one technique used by the British to encourage men to enlist before the introduction of conscription.