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This study charts how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political intervention during the two decades from 1933: giving urgent warnings against the rise of fascism, providing practical information about how to live frugally and signalling international political alignments, beliefs and affiliations.

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With A Foreword by Mary Banham. The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. The book explores exhibitions in Poplar, Battersea and South Kensington in London; Belfast, Glasgow and Wales; a touring show carried on four lorries and another aboard an ex-aircraft carrier.

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The first academic work to present design exhibitions as an important means of international exchange in terms of culture, diplomacy and 'soft power'.