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	Festival of Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in May 1951 in London.
		All the Festival buildings except the Royal Festival Hall were later demolished and replaced by other buildings to become an arts complex known as The South Bank.
		The Labour Party who had championed the Festival lost power while it was open and Terence Conran has speculated that the haste with which the main site was cleared was an act of political revenge by the incoming Conservative Party government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Festival_of_Britain (602 words)

	Festival of Britain -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Festival of Britain was a national (A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display) exhibition which opened in May 1951 in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
		All the Festival buildings except the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Festival Hall) Royal Festival Hall were later demolished and replaced by other buildings to become an arts complex known as (Click link for more info and facts about The South Bank) The South Bank.
		The Festival was the first time that (Click link for more info and facts about steelpan) steelpan music had been played in Britain, thanks to the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fe/Festival_of_Britain.htm (729 words)

	BBC - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Festival of Britain was intended as a signal to the world, a highly visible celebration of the achievements of the Labour government and the announcement of the birth of a brave new world from a war weary country.
		The 1951 Festival of Britain was a remarkable opportunity to present the British public with a concentrated dose of modern architecture.
		The Festival designers concentrated on creating a look which employed spaciousness with strong colours and textures, notable natural wood, a style perhaps best represented by the architects Robert Matthew and Dr J L Martin in the design of the Royal Festival Hall.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/programmes/festival/index.shtml (640 words)

	Festival of Britain: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Festival of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Festival of Britain opened in 1951 in London, England.
		The Festival was an attempt to give Britons a feeling of recovery and progress.
		There was, however, opposition to the project from those who believed that the money (£8 million) would have been better spent on housing.
	www.encyclopedian.com /fe/Festival-of-Britain.html (193 words)

	Collector Cafe - Register
		In 1951 an austere Britain tried its hardest to shake off the post-Second World War blues by mounting a nation wide festival to show who the British people were, what the Land of Britain was and British achievements, past and present, with a preview of their continuing future.
		The centrepiece of the Festival of Britain was the South Bank Exhibition in London, in sight of the Houses of Parliament, a collection of modern buildings housing displays relating to all aspects of British life.
		The Festival of Britain Society was founded in 1989 by a small group of like minded people who realised they were in a unique position to collate some of this material and in so doing to preserve the memory of this memorable occasion.
	www.collectorcafe.com /article_archive.asp?article=260&id=1887 (503 words)

	FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In 1948, young architect Hugh_Casson, 38, was appointed director of architecture for the Festival and he unashamedly sought to appoint other young architects to design its buildings.
		All the Festival buildings except the Royal_Festival_Hall were later demolished and replaced by other buildings to become an arts complex known as The_South_Bank.
		The Labour Party who had championed the Festival lost power while it was open and Terence_Conran has speculated that the haste with which the main site was cleared was an act of political revenge by the incoming Conservative Party government.
	www.witwib.com /Festival_of_Britain (594 words)

	Encyclopedia: Festival of Britain
		The Skylon was a futuristic-looking 88-metre high cigar-shaped tower built of aluminium and steel, which was a talking point of the Festival of Britain in 1951.
		The Royal Festival Hall is a conference, concert, dance and art performance venue in Lambeth, London.
		Humphrey Jennings (August 19, 1907 Walberswick, Suffolk - September 24, 1950 Greece) was a British film-maker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Festival-of-Britain (1725 words)

	Museum of London: The Festival of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Unlike 1851, Britain was struggling economically and attempting to come to terms with her diminished international position.
		This uncertainty is reflected in the Festival of Britain.
		Britain's future was to be assured by developing a pride in herself and asserting a passive nationalism.
	www.museumoflondon.org.uk /MOLsite/exhibits/festival/international.htm (589 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - TV or not TV? Festival 'is Britain's biggest adultery opportunity'
		The Paisley-born author of the hit show Coupling has described the television festival as "Britain’s biggest adultery opportunity" - at the time he met his wife in the George Hotel bar, both were attached to someone else.
		This weekend, the couple will return to the festival, as Sue is speaking on Saturday afternoon at a seminar entitled California Dreamin’, about the experience of British television programme-makers in the United States.
		The atmosphere is brilliant at the festival; there are a lot of interesting people there who are enjoying themselves and letting their hair down.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /news.cfm?id=919362003 (794 words)

	Britain's Festival of Sport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Britain declared 1951 to be Festival of Britain year to commemorate the Centennial of Britain’s Great Exhibition of 1851.
		In conjunction with the Festival was “Britain’s Festival of Sport”.
		Britain’s Festival of Sport lasted from May 12 to at least August 11, with sports and games played around the country.
	www.internationalgames.net /britfest.htm (83 words)

	Pavilion'd in Splendour: Textiles in the Festival of Britain 1951
		Pavilion'd in Splendour: Textiles in the Festival of Britain 1951
		Tapestry weaving was represented at the Festival by Sax Shaw's The Lion and the Oak Tree.
		Although the festival did not solve any of the political, economic or social problems Britain was facing at the time, for a fleeting moment it presented a mirage of hope - a true tonic to the nation.
	embroidery.embroiderersguild.com /2002-6/leonard.htm (2384 words)

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		The Festival began in 1947 at a time when culture had been given a central role to play in society through increased government awareness of the benefits of the arts, backed by government funding for the arts.
		One aim of the Edinburgh Festival was to use the arts to provide spiritual refreshment to a population affected by six years of war, and in this sense ‘culture’ had a religious aspect to it.
		This paper seeks to explore the various meanings and roles envisioned for culture in post-war Britain, and the conflicts that arose over its definition, by using the EIFMD as a microcosm of wider trends between 1945 and c.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /History/ESH/histper/Bartie2.doc (262 words)

	Film Festivals . com - Festival pages
		This year the festival will be celebrating the return of Les Thrillers, also known across the Channel as Polars and as Policiers, with offerings from traditional masters of the genre like Claude Chabrol and Alaine Corneau.
		Britain’s French Film Festival has been an enduring showcase for the best of French film talent over nine seasons now, the only festival in Britain devoted exclusively to French cinema.
		The festival is regularly attended by some of the most influential names and personalities of French cinema, who audiences have the chance to meet in person.
	www.filmfestivals.com /uk/htm/festivals/french_film_fest/2000/festivals_french_tour.html (448 words)

	BBC News \| NEW MEDIA \| Festival of Britain to go online
		The Festival of Britain was an attempt to shake off the traumas of World War II and raise the spirits of the people.
		At the heart of the festival was the South Bank Exhibition in London - a collection of modern buildings built with an eye to the future.
		The Festival ended in September 1951 and the South Bank collection of buildings were demolished, leaving only the Royal Festival Hall.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/1310113.stm (470 words)

	Designing Britain - Festival of Britain
		Planned in 1947, in the austerity years of the Atlee Labour government, the Festival of Britain promised to provide a cultural counterpart to the social benefits of the Wefare State.
		The organisers envisaged the Festival as a country-wide celebration of Britain’s history, achievements and culture – a popular event that would help Britons forget the trauma of war and contribute to the post-war ‘re-construction’ of morale.
		Festival of Britain, Catalogue of the Exhibition, 1951, p.117.
	www.brighton.ac.uk /designingbritain/html/festival.html (2076 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 3 \| 1951: King George opens Festival of Britain
		King George VI has inaugurated the Festival of Britain and opened the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank.
		It is intended to demonstrate Britain's contribution to civilisation, past, present, and future, in the arts, in science and technology, and in industrial design.
		After the devastation and resulting austerity of the war years, the Festival of Britain aimed to raise the nation's spirits whilst promoting the very best in British art, design and industry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/3/newsid_2481000/2481099.stm (522 words)

	Arts Council of Great Britain: Festival of Britain Files, 1946-57Catalogue of records in the Victoria and Albert ...
		The lord president of the Council was given responsibility for the Festival, and he appointed a Great Exhibition Centenary Committee of interested departments, to create a festival organisation, define the framework of the festival and to be responsible for liaison between government departments and the festival organisation.
		A Festival headquarters was set up by the Treasury in March 1948 and with an exhibition unit formed by the Central Office of Informationformed the nucleus of the Festival of Britain Office, which existed as a separate department from April 1949 to March 1953.
		Records of the Festival of Britain Office and its predecessor bodies are in class WORK 25 at the Public Record Office in Kew.
	www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/wid/ead/acgb/acgb-el6.html (502 words)

	Story of Wandsworth - The Festival of Britain and the Coronation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A series of national festivities helped to boost morale during the post war years of austerity.
		The Festival of Britain of 1951 was a celebration of British science, history and culture.
		The Festival Pleasure Gardens were built at Battersea Park.
	www.wandsworth.gov.uk /Home/LeisureandTourism/Museum/StoryofWandsworth/festival.htm (117 words)

	The Observer \| Food monthly \| Festival of Britain: Pleasure dome
		The Festival could also be said to be the pinnacle of Old Labour achievement: a tonic to the nation, expressed in welfare-state architecture, public art and enterprise and free of commercial sponsorship.
		But although the Festival of Britain is often remembered as an apotheosis of dreary authoritarian socialism, it was truly popular; and it certainly looks much more fun than the late, unlamented Millennium Dome.
		Now, the Festival of Britain is more widely recognised as the catalyst of a post-war design renaissance, as a parent of the Arts Council, and, as Hugh Casson put it, as 'a pattern book for our new urban landscapes'.
	www.observer.co.uk /life/story/0,6903,473346,00.html (1505 words)

	The Observer \| Food monthly \| Festival of Britain: Michael Frayn
		As a suburban schoolboy, novelist and playwright Michael Frayn remembers the Festival of Britain as being the post-war party the country deserved but had never had.
		There was all this excitement going on about the Festival of Britain, but it took a while before I finally condescended to see what the fuss was about.
		It was true of the Festival of Britain, but it was the packaging of the thing that counted; the packaging and the air of surprise and excitement it gave to the content.
	www.observer.co.uk /life/story/0,6903,473380,00.html (476 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 30 \| 1951: Festival closes to applause (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		King George VI, who opened the Festival on 3 May, was to have taken part in the final ceremonies but had to pull out because he is still convalescing from an operation on his lungs.
		The Festival of Britain was widely regarded as a big success - although there had been much criticism initially of the £11m cost at a time of meat rationing and petrol shortages.
		Other lasting legacies of the Festival included the restored Colston Hall in Bristol and Buckland Abbey, home of Sir Francis Drake near Plymouth, which was opened to the public for the first time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/low/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_3161000/3161521.stm (606 words)

	AIAON \| BBC ON THIS DAY \| 28 \| 1951: Glasgow powers up for the Festival
		The Festival of Britain, a country-wide celebration of Britain's history, achievements and culture, has been a great success since it was opened by King George VI on 3 May.
		Princess Elizabeth spent much of May 1951 standing in for her father, King George VI, who after the ceremony to open the Festival of Britain was ordered by his doctors to take a month off for health reasons.
		He missed most of the Festival which was to become a highlight of his reign, and a little over eight months later, he died.
	amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/28/newsid_3005000/3005617.stm (604 words)

	The 1951 Festival of Britain in Birmingham and the English Midlands
		The 1951 Festival of Britain in Birmingham and the English Midlands
		Note: Martin Packer here continues his comparisons of the festivals and fairs of 1851, 1951, and 2001 with a retrospective account of the Festival of Britain, which took place a century after the Great Exhibition.
		Outside the Birmingham area, the Festival of Britain included Arts Festivals at Cheltenham (between July 2nd and 14th), Worcester (between September 2nd and 7th) and the lengthy Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-Upon-Avon from March 24th to October 27th.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/1851/packer1.html (904 words)

	Observer \| Festival of Britain: Dinah Casson
		Sir Hugh Casson was the architectural director of the Festival of Britain.
		There was a sort of change of gear after the Festival, and the nature of his life altered.
		It was said at the time that the Festival was built by a bunch of herbivores who were rather gentle grass-eating chaps in suede shoes, like my father, who had a socialist agenda of some sort.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4170596-102278,00.html (490 words)

	Festival of Britain
		www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/1851/packer1.html for the Festival of Britain in the English Midlands.
		dam Nicholson on the Festival of Britain from : "
		festival of britain society : a celebration of a tonic to the nation in 1951
	www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk (1246 words)

	Travel: World: Shakespeare Festival Descends On Britain
		The festival will run from April 2006 to April 2007, and tickets have just been released for public sale.
		Performances are to be staged in a variety of locations, including a new outdoor riverside theatre, The Dell; Holy Trinity Church, where Shakespeare is buried; as well as a new 1,000 seat Courtyard Theatre opening in July 2006.
		"The Festival looks set to be the most extensive celebration of Shakespeare's genius - at once at national knees-up for the RSC's house playwright and a survey of the different approaches to his work from around the world.
	xtramsn.co.nz /travel/0,,12734-4757409,00.html (413 words)

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