Simon Eliot

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@moidigital What was Mrs G. E. Barbour doing in Room 280 in August 1942? Find out at https://t.co/1JdIKi5vbe

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@moidigital Where did they position machine guns in Senate House in the early 1940s? Find out at https://t.co/1JdIKi5vbe

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Where is the cash register used by Miss Joan Hunter Dunn in the MOI canteen in the 1940s? Find out at https://t.co/1JdIKi5vbe

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How many lapel badges featuring Churchill’s face were sent to Guatemala in the early 1940s? Find out at https://t.co/1JdIKi5vbe

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What was Mrs G. E. Barbour doing in Room 280 in August 1942? Find out at https://t.co/1JdIKi5vbe

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Between 1939-1944 the MOI surveyed and recorded the opinions of the nation weekly. Where was this done? See https://t.co/1JdIKi5vbe

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What's the link between the Tube map, the A to Z of London, and Senate House? Find out next Thursday https://t.co/1JdIKi5vbe

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Worth remembering that Orwell's Room 101 was not in the Ministry of Truth (aka Senate House) but in the Ministry of Love.

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@moidigital How much reading was done in airraid shelters, and by what light? Oil lamps, torches, candles? Blackout regulations would apply.

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@moidigital 'Keep Calm' is pure typography, yet its impact is extraordinary. Anything in that typeface/format seems now to claim authority.

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@moidigital Indeed, and what a disaster for public morale if 'don't panic' had become the cry - shades of 'Dads Army'!

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Most variations on ‘Keep Calm’ don’t work: their second half weak, or understressed, or overlong-worst of all, not funny.

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Keep Calm and Carry On: four stressed syllables, alliteration using hard Cs and K. It's like a line of Anglo-Saxon poetry.

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@moidigital This is definitely more our history than theirs - we want to find out how people at the time reacted to the MOI's work.

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Lots of official photos of MOI and Senate House 1939-45, but where are the private snaps? If you have any, please let us know

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@moidigital 75 years ago MOI faced a familiar problem: how does a free society protect itself from its enemies without becoming less free?

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@moidigital Given the volume and diversity of MOI's output, it must have been one of the largest publishing houses in the world.