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.

Since then, there have have been many different takes on the original. You can read more
here.
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