{"id":1448,"date":"2012-11-25T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonerfromafar.wordpress.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2020-05-24T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T15:40:31","slug":"keep-calm-and-read-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/keep-calm-and-read-this-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Calm and… Read This Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posters and other products using similar sentences have been flooding London for quite \"Keep<\/a>sometime now. In fact, it is not even the first time that they became popular. Social media<\/strong> has probably contributed quite a bit to their popularity lately. You just have to check Facebook to see specific pages. There has even been a project to localise (translate) these posters to adapt them to various markets. They are fun, but there are so many around that I decided to\u00a0look into where they come from, a bit of history and some fun<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is quite interesting to see that is part of\u00a0of a marketing\u00a0campaign<\/strong> commissioned by the UK Government just before the second world war. These posters were designed to boost the morale of the British people during the hard times ahead. The crown displayed is King George VI\u00b4s.<\/p>\n

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Curiously enough, the Brits would never see the best known<\/strong> of the three posters\u00a0(on the right)\u00a0<\/span>officially. The reason being that it was meant to be released if the Nazis invaded the country, which never happened. The first two posters were displayed in shop windows, boards, etc across UK.<\/p>\n

It is believed that most of these posters were destroyed around 1945, although a small number remained<\/strong> in the National Archives and the Imperial War Museum in London. Some of others have been found in different ways – by chance, in a programme on UK TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The power of words! The sentence has become very related to British culture. There are so many expressions that we have first heard on adverts, and which still keep being used. How many can you recall?<\/p>\n

I have posted below some of the funniest and more interesting ones, just for\u00a0laughs. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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