You've seen the now-famous
Keep Calm and Carry On poster and its many many variations, but did you know
that this British WWII poster was never distributed to the public and was
discovered only recently in an English book shop ? Keep Calm and Carry On was a
propaganda poster produced by the British government in 1939 during the
beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British
public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.
It had only limited distribution with no public display, and thus was little
known. The poster was rediscovered in 2000, has been re-issued by a number of
private companies, and has been used as the decorative theme for a range of
products. [1]
In
early 2012, Barter Books Ltd, debuted an informational short "The Story of
Keep Calm and Carry On." The video provided visual insight to the
modernization of the phrase as well as details surrounding the
commercialization.
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