Gallery: How vintage posters highlighted a modern new Britain

A public information poster from the GPO in the 1960s © GPO/BPMA and BT Archive Photograph: GPO/BPMA and BT Archive/guardian.co.uk Keep Alert by Leonard Cusden (1950s) © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: guardian.co.uk Winter Sale by Edward McKnight Kauffer (1919) © Derry & Toms Photograph: Derry & Toms/guardian.co.uk Find a Safe Place to Cross. Anon. (1960s) © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Rye Marshes by Paul Nash (1932) © Shell Mex & BP Photograph: guardian.co.uk Stow Tools Safely by Tom Eckersley (1940s) © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: guardian.co.uk New Shell Lubricating Oils by Edward McNight Kauffer (1937) © Shell Mex & BP Photograph: guardian.co.uk Get Skilled Aid by Manfred Reiss (1940s) © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: guardian.co.uk 4d Minimum Foreign Rate by Tom Eckersley (1950s) © GPO/BPMA and BT Archive Photograph: guardian.co.uk 8oooooo Telephone Calls a Day by Pat Keeley (1946) © GPO/BPMA and BT Archive Photograph: guardian.co.uk Time To Change to Winter Shell by Tom Eckersley and Eric Lombers (1938) © Shell Mex & BP Photograph: guardian.co.uk Beware of the Swarf by Leonard Cusden (1940) © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: guardian.co.uk Inspect Daily by Tom Eckersley (1940s) © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: guardian.co.uk Please Use the Crossing by Bracken (1960s) © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: guardian.co.uk Your Britain: Housing by Abram Games (1942) © Army Bureau of Current Affairs Photograph: guardian.co.uk Post Much Earlier This Christmas by Jan Lewitt and George Him (1943) © GPO/BPMA and BT Archive Photograph: guardian.co.uk Careless Talk Costs Lives by Fougasse aka Cyril Kenneth Bird © Ministry of Information Photograph: guardian.co.uk Train Your Pets. Anon. 1960s © The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents Photograph: The Royal Society For The Prevention of Accidents/guardian.co.uk