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Origin of keep calm and carry on3/13/2024 ![]() ![]() Benjamin DisraeliĪdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Work is good provided you do not forget to live. The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Frank HubbardĬatch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. The safe way to double your money is to fold it in over once and put it in your pocket. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people. He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit. 'Better bread with water than cake with trouble' Russian Proverbįinished my reading challenge with 2 days left to spare 'An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today' Laurence J. 'It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose your own' Harry S. 'A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain' Mark Twain Funny, wise and stirring - it is a perfect source of strength to get us all through the coming months. The book is packed full of similarly motivational and inspirational quotes, proverbs, mantras and wry truths to help us through the recession, from such wits as Churchill, Disraeli and George Bernard Shaw. Gordon Brown had one up in 10 Downing Street and James May wears a Keep Calm T-shirt on the telly - it is suddenly everywhere. Though it never saw the light of day in 1939 (it was only supposed to go up if Britain was invaded), it has suddenly struck a chord in our current difficult times, now we are in need of a stiff upper lip and optimistic energy once again. This is but one example of the rich material being unearthed by our new project.Keep Calm and Carry On was a World War 2 government poster discovered in a dusty box nine years ago. The findings of this study prove just how important it is to examine the workings of the Ministry of Information between 19 from the point of view of the history of communication. ‘Public relations is much about getting the message's tone and timing right, and the poster's immediate fate and its subsequent rediscovery are a vivid confirmation of this fact. The history of 'Keep Calm and Carry On' is peculiar and complicated and, like so many examples of the best history (and the best science), doesn't quite confirm our settled notions or convenient assumptions," said Professor Simon Eliot, the project’s principal investigator. It is run in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and the National Archives at Kew. The project, Make Do and Mend: a publishing and communication history of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45, is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ‘Keep Calm’ slogan, the Institute of English Studies, a member institute of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, is undertaking a £782,410 four-year research project to reveal its secret history. Relatively little was known about the Ministry of Information, which was located in the University of London’s headquarters at Senate House, but that is now changing. It wasn’t until a copy was discovered in a bookshop in Northumberland in 2000, and reproductions of it began to be sold a year later, that its fame was established. The ‘Keep Calm’ design was never officially issued and only a very small number of originals have survived to the present day.Ģ.45 million posters displaying it were printed, only to be pulped and recycled in 1940 to help the British government deal with a serious paper shortage. ![]() It was one of a series of three posters that would be issued in the event of war (the others read ‘Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory’ and ‘Freedom is in Peril Defend it with all Your Might’). The now-ubiquitous ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ phrase was chosen for its clear message of ‘sober restraint’ and was coined by the shadow Ministry of Information at some point between 27 June and 6 July 1939. ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ was one of three key messages created by Britain’s wartime propaganda department, the Ministry of Information, made famous as the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. It’s hard to believe that a wartime slogan from 1939, which was never seen by the public, has re-emerged 75 years later and is being used to sell everything from mugs to flight bags and baby clothes. ![]()
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