Talk:Lord Kitchener Wants You/Archive 1

Your Country Needs You poster
I think the more famous version of this is "Your Country Needs You", see for example. Tim! 17:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I added to the gallery the original poster that I found already being displayed in the bio article Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. 5Q5 (talk) 13:17, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

The Prisoner
In The Prisoner episode "A Change of Mind", there is a poster "Your Community Needs You", that is clearly based on the Kitchener poster. Could we try and post it?

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:04, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Perspective/technique
Why is there no explanation of how the poster achieves the illusion of following the reader around the room. Can someone with this knowledge expand the article to enlighten the rest of us ... 78.149.160.34 (talk) 14:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

"It is often wrongly referred to as "BRITONS WANTS YOU"."?
Is this an American thing? I'm British, and in my experience the poster is usually referred to as "Your Country Needs/Wants You". I don't think I've ever heard it referred to as "Britons Wants You". 86.136.250.218 (talk) 20:51, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Is it not "BRITONS [Lord Kitchener] Wants You"? -- George 2001 hi 20:47, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Recent research
Looks like this may need some rewriting (and disentangling) - 'Your Country Needs You' - The myth about the First World War poster that 'never existed'. Taylor's book is ISBN 1887354972. Andrew Gray (talk) 18:16, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I've seen quite a bit of criticism about that research. The reason I came here right now is because of documentary I'm watching on Channel 5 at this very moment "Lost Heroes of WW1".
 * "When the call came to serve your country, the chance of honour and adventure stirred the young Robbie Burns: 'Everywhere you went in Glasgow there were great big posters up of Kitchener with his finger pointing at you. No matter where you were this finger seemed to be pointing at you. Your King and Country Needs You' - Robbie Burns 7th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders."
 * Now this was an interview when he was an old man. It could be a wrong memory, or memory of the postcards etc. And he gets the words of the poster wrong. But think we need a lot more info before we can rely on one man's research over the memory of someone that was there and actually says the posters existed. Especially when the researcher seems to be coming to the conclusion they were never used just because the can't find evidence they were used. Identz (talk) 19:00, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

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 * The research looks pretty serious
 * Tompalmer01 (talk) 05:09, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

consensus for archiving
Per H:ARC, does anyone oppose installation of to archive this talk page? Chris Troutman ( talk ) 17:29, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 01:50, 13 January 2015 (UTC)