No doubt you've seen these posters floating around the internet. But the history behind the original is quite fascinating. The New York Times Magazine published a story Sunday about the British propaganda poster being devised for the home front during World War II. The “Keep Calm” poster, meant to be distributed in the event of a German invasion and was extremely obscure for many decades. In fact, few saw the poster back then. Not many were distributed, and the land invasion never came.
06 July 2009
the history behind the message
No doubt you've seen these posters floating around the internet. But the history behind the original is quite fascinating. The New York Times Magazine published a story Sunday about the British propaganda poster being devised for the home front during World War II. The “Keep Calm” poster, meant to be distributed in the event of a German invasion and was extremely obscure for many decades. In fact, few saw the poster back then. Not many were distributed, and the land invasion never came.
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