Measure the flour, spices, butter, sugar, eggs, almonds, treacle and lemon and orange zests into a large bowl. Beat well, then fold in the soaked fruits.

A key aim of the Empire Marketing Board as it commissioned artwork was to give British people beautiful colourful visions of the landscapes, industries and people of the Empire. This could help people to imagine the Empire in a positive light and, in so doing, encourage people to buy goods from within the Empire. This is no doubt why so much focus was put on producing beautiful images.

The National Archives holds more than 700 posters of the Empire Marketing Board in record series CO 956, alongside original correspondence, minutes and papers. Some copies of posters are held in other archives, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Birmingham Polytechnic Library.

Stephen Constantine, Buy and Build: The Advertising Posters of the Empire Marketing Board, HMSO (1986), p. 3. ↩ HST_RXD– firmware upload pin (receive pin). pin level 2.8V, compatible with 3V3 (5V not compatible) This blog article is part of the 20sPeople season – a season of exhibitions, activities and events from The National Archives that explores and shares stories that connect the people of the 2020s with the people of the 1920s. Highways of Empire

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Remove the pudding from the steamer or pan and cool completely. Make holes in the pudding with a fine skewer and pour in a little more brandy or rum to feed. Discard the paper and foil and replace with fresh. Store in a cool, dry place. Cover the cold pudding with fresh greaseproof paper and foil, and store in a cool place until Christmas. You can also freeze Christmas pudding, but as it stores so well it doesn’t seem worth it! If it really helps you to freeze it, then allow it to mature for a month before freezing. Make and cook the pudding 6–8 weeks before Christmas. As it does take a fair time to steam, make things easier for yourself by preparing the pudding up to the end of step 4 the day before. Keep the pudding in a cool place overnight, and steam as directed the next day. Next, we have our loop function, in the loop function, we have our smartDelay(2000) function that ensures that the incoming data from the GPS module gets populated in the array that we are working with. While many posters created by the Empire Marketing Board did receive praise on account of their aesthetics and perceived educational value, there was also criticism that they were not sufficiently direct to be useful for their purpose. Perhaps more importantly for the future of the Board, there was also hostility from many who felt that official propaganda was objectionable in principle, and that government should not be telling people what to do. This hostility resulted in a reduction in funding and ultimately the Board was abolished in 1933 12.