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tweekatten Since: Oct, 2019

Nov 23rd 2020 at 2:53:46 AM •••

It may be a trope, and it may be something the Brits desperately want to believe of themselves, and it may be true that they work very hard at making others believe it as well... but it simply ain't the truth.

DaibhidC Wizzard Since: Jan, 2001

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Oct 20th 2020 at 12:17:57 PM •••

"Keep Calm and Carry On" was never actually displayed during the war because the government never thought the situation had gotten bad enough to warrant its use.

Hmm. According to this video by the Imperial War Museum, by the time the situation had got that bad, the Government had already discovered that people didn't like the "stiff upper lip" posters and found them patronising. Later Ministry of Information posters focused on practical things people could do, rather than appealing to a vague spirit of not making a fuss about things.

moorzilko Since: Jul, 2015

Jul 8th 2015 at 6:49:34 AM •••

Is it really origins from America? Because I found it in Yeats' "Celtic Twilight": http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/celtic-twilight/29/

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