The Festival Of Britain : A Land And Its People

The festival of britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation. Giving britons an intimate experience of contemporary design and modern building , it helped them accept a landscape under reconstruction, and brought hope of a better world to come. the featival of britain; a land and its people travels beyond the festivals’s spectacular centrepiece at london’s south bank, to events held the length and breadth of the four nations, to which hundreds of the country’s greatest architects, artists and designers contributed.