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Pasties, Petrol & Stamps: Keep Calm!
Thanks for these today… I was too busy today to pay much notice to Twitter, so missed all the excitement about potential petrol tanker strike, and pasty tax… I knew about the stamps and have stocked up on a few:
I’d seen people on Facebook talking about filling their baths up, and debating what else to hoard!! Another good one has come in from Twitter:
Read this article I’ve just had published today on Christianised versions of Keep Calm and Carry On:
You can also download the article in PDF format, added 21-05-17
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Thanks to @EricaGlaser for this one
Keep reading for interesting aspects of the story… enjoying:
In 1997 Dr. Bex Lewis, taken with a youthful visit to a museum’s propaganda collection, wrote an authoritative dissertation on the poster. This research is oft-copied but rarely cited (boo).
Thanks! Supporting Creative Commons Licences!!
In 2000, Barter Books in England reprinted it from a rare original they discovered, and it sold merrily.
I have a friend who works with the Eden Network, and they recently decided to make a range of T-shirts using the Keep Calm idea…:
Order here – you know you want to! And here’s some of the t-shirts at the Eden Network offices:
And here I am wearing the t-shirt for ‘Christmas circuits’!
