Bookmark: The Story of Barter Books and Keep Calm & Carry On

"Keep Calm and Carry On" was a propaganda poster produced by the British government during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the event of invasion.

In 2000, a copy of the poster was rediscovered in Barter Books, a second-hand bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland.

Literary reviewer Umapagan Ampikaipakan went in search of the store owners, Mary and Stuart Manley, to find out more about both the bookstore - which is one of the largest second-hand bookstores in the UK - and the poster that has now become an ubiquitous cultural icon.