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Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the British government in 1939 in preparation for the Second World War. The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. Although 2.45 million copies were printed, and although the Blitz did in fact take place, the poster was hardly ever publicly displayed and was little known until a copy was rediscovered in 2000 at Barter Books, a bookshop in Alnwick. It has since been re-issued by a number of private companies, and has been used as the decorative theme for a range of products.
I have just read a fascinating article in Saturday's GUARDIAN about this, which you will find at the following link:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/08/keep-calm-and-carry-on-posters-austerity-ubiquity-sinister-implications
I doubt all my BLOG readers will agree with some of the statements - but as a piece of history it is, surely, interesting.
I have a version hanging in my summerhouse (shed-with-the-overhang) reading: Keep Calm and Learn to Dance in the Rain.
