The spring of 1924 showed how spectacle could entertain, persuade, and conceal power all at once. As Buster Keaton pushed film into bold new territory and Hollywood’s studio system grew stronger, the ...

My father, who was born in 1919, visited the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley as "birthday treat" on 1st May. While its ...

The Fleetway Press Ltd, London, have just issued the official guide to the British Empire Exhibition, 1925. It is a well-printed shilling volume, readable as a guide to the re-opened big “Show”, and ...

AS part of the scheme for the participation of H.M. Government in the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, an Exhibition of Pure Science has been organised. The arrangements are in the hands of a ...

THE British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, in 1 the north-west outskirts of London, strikes at once a note on the Empire as a unit. From the Palace of Engineering, with its sense of the fullness of the ...

This study examines how various actors used the British Empire exhibitions of the interwar period to contest the privileges of whiteness found throughout the empire, demonstrating that imperial race ...

Folded leaflet to accompany the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley, London, 1924-25. The leaflet has text on one side and a large coloured plan of the Exhibition on the other. The text gives ...