A rare original copy of one of the most famous posters published in Britain during the Second World War. Your Courage Your Cheerfulness Your Resolution

Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution, Will Bring Us Victory

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  • Condition: B (fold, age related wear and tear)
  • Date: 1939
  • Publisher: Ministry of Information
  • Size: 375 x 250 mm

A rare original copy of one of the most famous posters published in Britain during the Second World War. Your Courage Your Cheerfulness Your Resolution was commissioned by the Ministry of Information as part of a series of three “Home Publicity” posters, including  Keep Calm and Carry On and Freedom Is in Peril / Defend It With All Your Might. Each poster showed the slogan under a representation of a Tudor Crown and were intended to strengthen civilian morale. An estimated 800,000 copies of this poster in different sizes were printed in 1939, to be exhibited on commercial poster sites, railway stations, shop and bank windows, the front of buses and in newsagents. Very few have survived today as the campaign was cancelled due to public hostility towards the implied sacrifice of ordinary people for the benefit of the elites (Your Courage will Bring Us Victory). A rare opportunity to own a culturally significant slice of British propaganda. A higher resolution image file is available for viewing on request.