[RESEARCH FUNDING] ESRC Festival of Social Science #ESRCFestival

August 9, 2017 by Second World War Posters

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Dr Bex Lewis and Sarah Penney have been awarded funding for the ESRC Festival of Social Science (November 2017) for the following event, drawing upon Bex's original PhD research into British Second World War propaganda posters, and Sarah's current PhD research on nostalgic marketing. Keep Calm and Stay Nostalgic: why wartime…

Ernest Charles Wallcousins(1883 – 1976)

April 6, 2017April 6, 2017 by Second World War Posters

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Ernest Wallcousins was a renowned and successful painter and illustrator famed for his portraits of Sir Henry Wood, the conductor of the Proms for over 50 years, and for that of Sir Winston Churchill. Wallcousins worked across a wide range of medium and subjects; a book illustrator in the early…

#EmptyShelf17 #3: The Ministry of Nostalgia by @owenhatherley

March 13, 2017December 11, 2017 by Second World War Posters

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The story of Keep Calm and Carry On is largely one of the 21st century, rather than of the Second World War, when it was produced. Owen Hatherley uses the poster as a hook as he investigates the 'nostalgia' we have for 1940s, and use it to legitimise contemporary austerity. Hatherley…

[BOOK PUBLICATION] Keep Calm and Carry On : The Truth Behind the Poster

January 20, 2017January 20, 2017 by Second World War Posters

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Within my 1997 undergraduate dissertation, and my 2004 PhD thesis, I (unintentionally) provided the story of the now ubiquitous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' (KCCO) poster (read an extract here), whilst I was writing about two very early posters produced by the British Government in the Second World War -…