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Safety First

Vintage Posters from RoSPA's Archive

Paul Rennie
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has been helping people recognize risk since the increase in road traffic and traffic accidents during the First World War. Drawing on a recently discovered archive of artwork, this book looks back at how public information posters – dealing with safety at work and at home as well as on the roads – used slogans and colourful graphics to keep people safe in the period between the 1920s and the 1960s.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Saraband
  • Year: 2015
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 154pp
  • Illustrated: Yes
  • Dimensions: 243x190mm
  • ISBN: 9781908643728
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 1.5kg
Product code:
511123
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Safety campaigns touch a nerve in all of us. Over the years, these posters, slogans and TV adverts have imprinted themselves on our collective memory, evoking nostalgia for childhood and a bygone Britain. In 2011, RoSPA made a wonderful discovery: a superb 'missing' archive of historical safety posters dating from the 1930s to 1970s. Clever, beautifully designed, often amusing, always packing a punch - these posters not only showcase the talented designers of the time, but also reflect the momentous changes that swept 20th-century Britain, revealing our social and industrial history from a unique new angle.
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