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3 x MINISTRY OF INFORMATION POSTERS. (A2) 42cm wide x 59.4cm High.
AUTHENTIC KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON POSTER REPRODUCED FROM OUR OWN ORIGINAL WW2 POSTER!
These are high quality reproductions of the posters produced by the Ministry of Information in 1939 at the beginning of World War II.
The posters were commisioned as a series of three. "Freedom is in Peril" (400,000 printed), "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory" (800,000 printed) and the now iconic "Keep Calm and Carry On" were issued and used across the country for motivational purposes, as the Government assumed that the nerves of the public would be shot to pieces. Planning for the posters started in April 1939, by June designs were prepared, and by August 1939, they were on their way to the printers, to be placed up within 24 hours of the outbreak of war. The posters were designed to have a uniform device, be a design associated with the Ministry of Information, have a unique and recognisable typography, with a message from the King to his people (whereas it later notoriously became "the People's War"). The slogans were created by civil servants, with one coming up with "Your Courage" as "a rallying war-cry that will bring out the best in everyone of us and put us in an offensive mood at once". These particular posters were designed as "a statement of the duty of the individual citizen", un-pictorial, to be accompanied by more colloquial designs. The "Your Courage" (this one) poster was much more famous during the war, as it was the first to go up, very large, and was the first of the Ministry of Information's posters.
Poster size is A2 42cm x 59.4 cm and is printed on high quality paper with a semi matt finish.
Free delivery in the UK.
AUTHENTIC KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON POSTER REPRODUCED FROM OUR OWN ORIGINAL WW2 POSTER!
These are high quality reproductions of the posters produced by the Ministry of Information in 1939 at the beginning of World War II.
The posters were commisioned as a series of three. "Freedom is in Peril" (400,000 printed), "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory" (800,000 printed) and the now iconic "Keep Calm and Carry On" were issued and used across the country for motivational purposes, as the Government assumed that the nerves of the public would be shot to pieces. Planning for the posters started in April 1939, by June designs were prepared, and by August 1939, they were on their way to the printers, to be placed up within 24 hours of the outbreak of war. The posters were designed to have a uniform device, be a design associated with the Ministry of Information, have a unique and recognisable typography, with a message from the King to his people (whereas it later notoriously became "the People's War"). The slogans were created by civil servants, with one coming up with "Your Courage" as "a rallying war-cry that will bring out the best in everyone of us and put us in an offensive mood at once". These particular posters were designed as "a statement of the duty of the individual citizen", un-pictorial, to be accompanied by more colloquial designs. The "Your Courage" (this one) poster was much more famous during the war, as it was the first to go up, very large, and was the first of the Ministry of Information's posters.
Poster size is A2 42cm x 59.4 cm and is printed on high quality paper with a semi matt finish.
Free delivery in the UK.
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