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"The Autobiography of a Nation": The 1951 Festival of Britain.

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 830 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: "The Autobiography of a Nation": The 1951 Festival of Britain.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Becky E. Conekin. "The Autobiography of a Nation": The 1951 Festival of Britain. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2003. Pp. xii, 260. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-6060-5.

Although warmly remembered by contemporaries, the 1951 Festival of Britain, an icon of the post-war decade, has been little written about by historians. Becky Conekin's probing, if somewhat tendentious analysis, is a welcome contribution, especially since it is the first full-length study of the Festival to be published. Based on Conekin's Ph.D. dissertation, it deploys the tools of history and cultural studies to contextualize the Festival and interpret its multiple meanings. Moving beyond the traditional explanations of it as a celebration of national recovery and an opportunity to market British products,...

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