Ladybird Books and Constructing the Future Past of Modern Britain (at Conway Hall)
Channel: Conway Hall
Date: 2016-11-13

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In this lovingly illustrated evening, social and architectural historian and lover of postwar modernism John Grindrod (author of Concretopia) talks us through the dreams and the reality portrayed in the #Ladybird books over the decades.

Social and cultural historian Helen Day documents the changing attitudes to gender race and class and Tim Dunn, transport historian, enthusiast and model village expert will discuss the social and design history revealed in the books From People At Work and Our Land In the Making and How It Works… to the changing reality around Peter and Jane.

[This talk was filmed at Conway Hall, London, in 2016]

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