List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Section 1: Introducing the Festival
1. The Background: history and historiography
2. The Festival’s People and Purposes
Section 2: Time
3. The Festival’s representations of the future
4. The Festival’s representations of the past
Section 3: Place
5. London-based representations of the metropole and the
‘regions’
6. The role of ‘the local’ in the Festival
7. The place that was almost absent: the British Empire
8. The place of escape and edification: the Battersea Pleasure
Gardens
Section 4: Conclusion
9. Conclusion: The Festival and its legacy
Select Bibliography
Appendices
Index
Becky E. Conekin is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, The London Institute
"The autobiography of a nation assembles an impressive array of
evidence and argument for judging this fascinating moment in
British postwar cultural history. Uniting the best of history and
cultural studies, Becky Conekin contributes an essential building
block for the gradually accumulating historiography of the postwar
era." -- Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
"This book makes a significant contribution to the design and
social history of postwar Britain." -- Simon Gunn, University of
Leeds
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