{"id":7607,"date":"2020-06-04T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2020-06-04T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:41:49","slug":"its-an-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=7607","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S AN EMERGENCY\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

IT\u2019S AN EMERGENCY\u2026.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nPOSTERS AND SLOGANS AT THE READY!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"There\u2019s nothing like an emergency to create a new raft of creative public service slogans and posters. Perhaps the most famous are those from the two World Wars. From the notorious WWI recruitment poster \u2018Your County Needs You\u2019 to the clever and guilt tripping \u2018Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?\u2019 slogans and images have been familiar parts of wartime imagery in the UK. WWII brought us \u2018Dig for Victory\u2019 and \u2018Careless Talk Costs Lives\u2019.<\/p>\n

In more recent times, governments across the globe have had to get creative, to warn, educate and \u2018encourage us\u2019 to get up to speed with coronavirus and obey the rules. \u2018Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives\u2019 has given way in England to \u2018Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives.\u2019 A London-based creative team, James Hodson and Jason Keet, recently revived some of the UK\u2019s most famous and catchy World War 1 and World War 2 slogans, to help in the new global battle against the spread of Covid-19. Instead of taking up arms, the country now requires us to \u2018Sit on the Sofa\u2019 and \u2018Click For Victory\u2019 by shopping online.<\/p>\n

Australia has a well-deserved reputation for pulling no punches with public service posters etc. Their \u2018If you drink and drive you\u2019re a bloody idiot\u2019 sums up the clarity usually adopted. Covid 19? No worries! Crocodile Dundee and kangaroos to the rescue. Swapping his trademark hunting knife for a butter knife, Dundee is pictured in a safety vest with the label: \u2018Protecting Australia\u2019s citizens from themselves.\u2019 The posters below suggest correct social distancing need not be a problem. Every Aussie must know exactly what to do when they exercise with their kangaroos and koalas!<\/p>\n

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Twenty years ago, Stuart Manley found a dusty copy of the Second World War poster \u2018Keep Calm and Carry On\u2019 in his second hand book shop in Alnwick, Northumberland. It was originally designed in the summer of 1939, by the shadow Ministry of Information. The choice of Red and White, copied from Hitler\u2019s \u2018Mein Kampf\u2019, was chosen in the belief that the combination would produce a strong psychological reaction from the public. Although 2.5 million were produced, the surprising thing is that it was never actually issued. Officials feared that \u2018it may annoy people that we should seem to doubt the steadiness of their nerves.\u2019 The keep calm message didn\u2019t seem totally relevant during the months of \u2018phoney war\u2019 which followed the declaration of hostilities in September 1939. By the time the Nazi Blitzkrieg began in Western Europe in the spring of 1940, a newly appointed director of Home Publicity decided to scrap \u2018Keep Calm and Carry On.\u2019 Stocks were pulped to help overcome a serious paper shortage. In spite of this, the poster and its many modern derivatives, has become one of the most recognisable in British history. Today we are advised to \u2018Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands.\u2019 We might as well add \u2018Keep Calm and Sort out the Loft\u2019 and of course, \u2018Keep Calm and Wave to Friends and Neighbours As You Walk Around the Village!\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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IT\u2019S AN EMERGENCY\u2026. POSTERS AND SLOGANS AT THE READY!   There\u2019s nothing like an emergency to create a new raft of creative public service slogans and posters. Perhaps the most famous are those from the two World Wars. 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