![]() ![]() People who outlasted quarantines and long separations. People who survived man-made cataclysms and natural disasters. Which is to say, you come from a long line of survivors: People who lived through civil wars as well as civil unrest. You are the last link in an unbroken chain of ancestors who managed to make it to child bearing age. If you’re old enough to read this, then you have already experienced at least one financial crisis. Marcus Aurelius lived through a pandemic. But it’s helpful to recall in times like these that, as the broadcaster Paul Harvey once explained, there have always been times like these. This is terrifying, are things breaking down? Maybe. What is happening?! you might find yourself asking. Hospitals filled to capacity, and beyond. She is a frequent speaker, writer and facilitator, and is author of the popular ' Raising Children in a Digital Age' (2014).Things are rough out there, it’s hard to argue with that. ![]() She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Visiting Research Fellow at St John's College, Durham University. "This is a readable and enlightening introduction to an aphoristic phenomenon." - Times Literary Supplement About the Authorīex Lewis has a background as a cultural communications historian and digital practitioner, with a PhD in Second World War posters, in which she wrote the history of Keep Calm and Carry On. Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster is available in our Critics’ Picks collection at the Governor Marie Bashir Reading Room. The State Library actually holds one of the original 1939 posters in our collection, and it has been steadfastly carrying on with its message for over 80 years. Poster - Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution - Will Bring Us Victory (1939) - Imperial War Museum NorthThis began its life as a PhD thesis, but at only 80 pages, it’s an interesting little read about the use of posters during wartime and the impact they can have into the future. ![]() ![]() Based on the public interest in this slogan now, you have to wonder if they made the right decision. These slogans aren’t nearly as catchy as ‘Keep Calm and Carry On,’ and yet these are the ones that were chosen to be displayed. Defend it with All Your Might’ and ‘Your courage, Your cheerfulness, Your resolution will ring us victory’ to mixed public responses. Interestingly two other posters were designed at the same time as ‘Keep Calm and Carry on.’ They were displayed around the UK – ‘Freedom is in Peril. “The Ministry of Information (MO1) had to assume that the public would be subjected to an unbearable series of shocks, resulting in shattered nerves, a lack of confidence in ultimate success, and therefore a lack of will to work for victory- requiring plenty of general assurance material.” Of particular interest to me was reading about why this poster and others were designed for use during the war. Posters were seen as a way to reach the masses - especially those not able to read or who were semi-literate - and were used as propaganda to persuade and inform the public during conflict.ĭesigned before the start of the war, the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters were never officially used until they were ‘rediscovered’ 70 years later, and now appear everywhere in a wide variety of forms - from mugs to tote bags and teapots. In Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster, author Bex Lewis explains how the phrase began as a poster during World War II. Keep Calm and Carry on : The Truth behind the Poster / Bex Lewis. ![]()
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