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Some recent threads on: absinthe, Anglo-Japanese friendship, early CDU posters, prohibition in Sweden.
“No! Crayfish demand these drinks!” — Swedish anti-prohibition poster designed by Albert Engström and published in the run-up to the 1922 referendum on prohibition. https://t.co/OV...
“It’s team work that counts - support National Government” — British poster published by the Conservative Party during the 1935 general election. https://t.co/P2L1hLnsLt
Austrian, anti-Italy propaganda postcard from the First World War (1915) showing the Austro-Hungarian gauntlet catching the the arm of Italy as it attempts the stab the empire in t...
A thread of absinthe posters from France and Switzerland leading up to the drink's prohibition in the early 20th century. https://t.co/hoHWiIyFcL
“Militant unity and solidarity!” — North Korean poster from 1969 celebrating the country’s friendship with Cuba. The two nations forged close relations through the 1960s, collabora...
“Greetings from one of Your Fair Allies” — Japanese postcard published in ca. 1905 to celebrate the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The postcard was published by the Osaka Beer Brewing Co...
A thread of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) posters from the first few federal elections held in West Germany. https://t.co/vSJOZcAuk7
“Out of the depths … to Palestine” — Poster published by the United Palestine Appeal (UPA) in 1945 showing a Jewish man in the striped concentration camp uniform rising ‘out of the...
“Portugal is not a small country” — Portuguese map published in 1934 showing Portugal’s colonies superimposed over a map of Europe. Text to the top left gives a breakdown of the em...
“German–Polish non-aggression pact” — German cartoon published in the Kladderadatsch magazine in December 1933 to celebrate the recently-agreed pact between Germany and Poland. htt...
“Let’s march to Delhi!” — Indian poster from the Second World War (ca. 1943) promoting the Indian National Army (INA). https://t.co/DAIEQCgNIO