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| | History Today: Art and empire - Wembley, 1924. (England)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | On St. George's Day, April 23rd, 1924, the British Empire came to Wembley in a colourful display of imperial solidarity. |
 | | Unlike the earlier exhibitions of 1886 and 1899 or the colonial participations at the Jubilee celebrations of 1887 and 1897, the Wembley extravaganza was first and foremost a stocktaking of imperial resources, the purpose being to increase public awareness about colonial production and thereby maximize intra-imperial trade. |
 | | Though previous exhibitions had presented the products of a particular territory, Wembley was, as the billboards advertised, the empire in... |
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