{"id":602,"date":"2019-03-07T20:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2019-03-07T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:15:23","slug":"the-late-lord-roberts-stirring-words","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/the-late-lord-roberts-stirring-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Late Lord Roberts&#8217; Stirring Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/?pdfemb-serveurl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.lib.ua.edu%2Fblogs%2Fworldwariposters%2Ffiles%2Fsecurepdfs%2F2019%2F03%2Fu0003_0004200_0000049.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-download-nonce=\"800fee4adc\" data-disablerightclick=\"on\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">u0003_0004200_0000049<br\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Title<\/td>\n<td>The Late Lord Roberts&#8217; Stirring Words<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Creator<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Date<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Format<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Description<\/td>\n<td>Referencing the words of \u201cLord Roberts\u201d might not be especially meaningful to Americans today, but for British citizens, especially in the early 20th century, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts was a celebrated war hero. Roberts died of pneumonia in the opening months of WWI; nevertheless, his words and likeness appeared in multiple propaganda posters to garner public support for the war. This particular poster consists of a long quotation accredited to Roberts in which the leader lambasts those participating in leisurely pursuits such as \u201cCRICKET AND FOOTBALL\u201d when so many were \u201cengaged in a life and death struggle.\u201d American posters, music, and films would deploy a similar rhetorical strategy to discredit opponents of the war by framing them as selfish, weak \u201cslackers.\u201d At the bottom of the poster lies the emotional provocation, \u201cCAN YOU READ THIS UNMOVED?\u201d and yet a more appropriate question might be \u201cWill you read this?\u201d In comparison to American propaganda posters, British posters regularly privilege the written word over the image, placing such appeals at a strategic disadvantage compared to more visually arresting posters designed to grab attention and communicate at a glance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Copyright and Terms<\/td>\n<td>Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. 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Roberts died of pneumonia in the opening months of WWI; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/the-late-lord-roberts-stirring-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Late Lord Roberts&#8217; Stirring Words&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/worldwariposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}