1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

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1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

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In 1953 the Festival of Britain Office was abolished and its records were taken over by the Ministry of Works. [9] a b c d "Sarah Easen, Film and the Festival of Britain 1951, British Universities and Video Council". Bufvc.ac.uk . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Life , Vol.30 No.4, January 22, 1951. Time. 22 January 1951. p. 17 . Retrieved 13 December 2011– via Internet Archive. festival of britain +music. Featherstone, Simon (2009). Featherstone, S., Englishness: Twentieth Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity , 2009, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748623655 . Retrieved 13 December 2011.

Sea. ( Theme Conveners: C. Hamilton Ellis and Nigel Clayton. Display Designers: Austin Frazer and Ellis Miles.)Telecinema. ( Architect: Wells Coates. Programme and Presentation: J. D. Ralph and R. J. Spottiswoode.) Homes and Gardens. ( Architects: Bronek Katz and Reginald Vaughan. Theme Conveners: A.Hippisley Coxe and S. D. Cooke.) Banham, Mary and Hillier, Bevis, A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 (Thames & Hudson, 1976). ISBN 0-500-27079-1 BBC News – 'Festival village' Trowell marks 60th anniversary". BBC. 22 April 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Scott-Moncrieff, George (1951), Living Traditions of Scotland, His Majesty's Stationery Office for The Council of Industrial Design Scottish Committee

Elder, Michael (2003), What do You do During the Day?, Eldon Productions, p.66 ISBN 9-780954-556808In 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the government was planning a Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to be held in 2022. [85] The proposed festival, which was intended to unite the United Kingdom after Brexit, was widely criticised as it coincided with centenary of the Irish Civil War and risked inflaming tensions in Northern Ireland. [85] The graphic designer Richard Littler, creator of Scarfolk, created a satirical poster for the Festival based on the cover of the original 1951 guide, reimagining the profile of the nation's symbolic figurehead Britannia shooting herself in the head. [86] Images of the Festival of Britain [ edit ] Several images of the South Bank Exhibition can be found on the internet, including many released by The National Archives on the 60th anniversary of the festival. [87]

The Living World. ( Theme Convener: Kenneth Chapman. Display Designers: Austin Frazer and Stirling Craig.) Alex Seago, Burning the Box of Beautiful Things: The Development of Post-Modern Sensibility, Oxford University Press, 1995 A Festival Council to advise the government was set up under General Lord Ismay. [8] Responsibility for organisation devolved upon the Lord President of the Council, Herbert Morrison, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, who had been London County Council leader. He appointed a Great Exhibition Centenary Committee, consisting of civil servants, who were to define the framework of the Festival and to liaise between government departments and the festival organisation. In March 1948, a Festival Headquarters was set up, which was to be the nucleus of the Festival of Britain Office, a government department with its own budget. [9] Festival projects in Northern Ireland were undertaken by the government of Northern Ireland. [12] The selection of Trowell, a Nottinghamshire village in the middle of England, as the Festival Village [64] Eric Nahm (1992). Britain Since 1945: The People's Peace. Oxford University Press. p.111. ISBN 9780191587993.The first idea for an exhibition in 1951 came from the Royal Society of Arts in 1943, which considered that an international exhibition should be held to commemorate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. [7] In 1945, the government appointed a committee under Lord Ramsden to consider how exhibitions and fairs could promote exports. [7] When the committee reported a year later, it was decided not to continue with the idea of an international exhibition because of its cost at a time when reconstruction was a high priority. [7] Herbert Morrison took charge for the Labour government and decided instead to hold a series of displays about the arts, architecture, science, technology and industrial design, [8] under the title "Festival of Britain 1951". [9] Morrison insisted there be no politics, explicit or implicit. As a result, Labour-sponsored programmes such as nationalisation, universal health care and working-class housing were excluded; instead, what was allowed was town planning, scientific progress, and all sorts of traditional and modern arts and crafts. [10] As we alluded to earlier, there were a couple of different versions of the 1951 Festival of Britain crown released, each with varying mintage figures and rarities. Scottish Committee of the Arts Council of Great Britain (1952), New Scots Poetry, Serif Books, Edinburgh Film was integral to the South Bank Exhibition, used to explain manufacturing, science and technology. The Dome of Discovery, the Exhibition of Science in South Kensington and the travelling Festival Exhibition made extensive use of educational and explanatory film.



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