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Subject: Wow - I'm really impressed how ultra-modern it looks.

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Nick (UK)

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Date Posted: 22:47:22 01/22/05 Sat
In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "Glasgow Empire Exhibition 1938" on 22:41:16 01/19/05 Wed

Quite at odds with the image of a backward looking Empire cowering in its mock-tudor cricket pavilions before the outbreak of war. Great post.

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Nick (UK)
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Date Posted: 11:12:33 01/23/05 Sun

On a point of history, I think the 1951 Festival of Britain was a deliberate attempt to brighten things up and boost morale during the Post-War austerity period, and nothing to do with the Empire Exhibitions. The first ever international festival was the Great Exhibition of 1851 (hosted at the Crystal Palace in London), and the 'Festival of Britain' was its centenary update. The world Expos grew out of the Great Exhibition and the other international and Empire copycat exhibitions which followed it.

If you can dig out any more history on the Empire expos Dave I'd like to use these and any other images to put together a report for the reports page. I think this is something that could really inspire and shock people, to see the British Empire in such a modern and forward-looking guise. A real whiff of what might have been, and what might be.

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