http://www.metafilter.com/tags/KingGeorgeVI Posts tagged with 'KingGeorgeVI' at MetaFilter. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:42:26 -0800 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:42:26 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76703/Keep%2DCalm%2Dand%2DCarry%2DOn In 1939, King George VI commissioned the Ministry of Information to produce three posters designed to reassure and prepare the British nation for an inevitable war. The posters were designed not so much to deliver any specific instruction, but rather to suggest an attitude - from King to country - towards the unknown. Stiff upper lip, old boy. <a href="http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/keepcalm.php">KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/research/photos_and_posters/pandp_page72.shtml"><u>YOUR</u> COURAGE, <u>YOUR</u> CHEERFULNESS, <u>YOUR</u> RESOLUTION,</a> <a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?pic=IWMPC14792&cmd=search&page=1&mode=boolean&words=PST+14792&idSearch=boolean&vadscoll=Imperial+War+Museum:+Posters+of+Conflict+-+The+Visual+Culture+of+Public+Information+and+Counter+Information">WILL BRING US VICTORY</a> <a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?pic=IWMPC14789&page=169&mode=boolean&words=war&idSearch=boolean&vadscoll=Imperial+War+Museum:+Posters+of+Conflict+-+The+Visual+Culture+of+Public+Information+and+Counter+Information">FREEDOM IS IN PERIL, DEFEND IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT</a> <a href="http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?pic=IWMPC14847&cmd=search&page=1&mode=boolean&words=PST+14792&idSearch=boolean&vadscoll=Imperial+War+Museum:+Posters+of+Conflict+-+The+Visual+Culture+of+Public+Information+and+Counter+Information">KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON</a> <a href="http://www.ww2poster.co.uk/research_project/thesisdesign/4extract.htm">This extract</a> from a PhD thesis outlines in more historic detail the concept, execution and reception of the three posters. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76703 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:42:26 -0800 attitudes keepcalmandcarryon KingGeorgeVI ministryofinformation poster propaganda stiffupperlip war what WW2 6am