Keep Calm and Carry On and other Second World War Posters
British Home Front Propaganda Posters of the Second World War
And here’s the main bit where our half hour conversation is highlighted (there’s some other bits that I recognise from our conversation, but they are bits that most now see as “public information” as my thesis has permeated culture … I may not be rich, but who can say that, eh?)
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It was originally a Second World War rallying cry to all Britons, but 70 years later the ‘Keep Calm’ slogan is now the subject of a long-running legal copyright dispute.
The wartime message has in recent years become an iconic national slogan after the phrase appeared on posters, books, mugs and other merchandise.
But ‘Keep Calm’ – originally produced by the government’s Ministry of Information – has since been trademarked by an entrepreneur who has claimed a monopoly on the famous phrase – and prevented anyone else from repeating it.
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Just popped a little comment onto this Guardian article:
The issue may be simply resolved in the end, with evidence that former TV producer Mark Coop got his original copy from Barter Books and appears to have no evidence of original discovery; but the Keep Calm Campaign says that he has United States and Canadian applications pending and the potential may be growing for restrictive action. The slogan was originally Crown copyright but is now in the public domain because more than 50 years have elapsed since an unknown civil servant thought it up. Wouldn’t it be great if they or a relative came forward?
Its two predecessors ‘Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution will Bring us Victory’ and ‘Freedom in Peril’ were plastered across the UK. But ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ was stuck on only a few office walls and all but a handful of copies – most in the National Archive and the Imperial War Museum – escaped pulping.
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TweetWe keep thinking people will get bored of it, but certainly in Jubilee year, there’s lots of interest:
Trying to remember who sent me this – thank you: 
It was going to be seen in Plymouth wasn’t it (short boat ride away from Cornwall!):
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