Post-War Progress (1945-1959) Gallery
The years that followed the world wars were focussed on rebuilding relations and creating a new path for the future, the selection of items in this gallery show the individuals that campaigned for peace or tried to challenge the cultural narrative for a more inclusive and tolerant global culture.
Sketch of Les Ballet Negres by exiled Austrian artist Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag, 1946
Confessions of a Congress Delegate: Being an Account of the Adventures of an Artists Delegate to the International Congress of Intellectuals for Peace by Feliks Topolski, 1949
First edition of In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming, 1953 & Letter from George Lamming to CLR James, 1957
Labour Party Song Book: labour anthems, traditional songs & community favourites, 1955
Diary of a visit by children from Liverpool to Grundlsee, Austria, 1949
New worlds. Vol. 1, no. 1: a fiction magazine of the future, 1946
Dell O'Dell: on both sides of the footlights by Dell O’Dell, c1946
The first Lady Chatterley / by D. H. Lawrence; with a foreword by Frieda Lawrence, c. 1946
Plan for peace: how the people can win the peace by Ellen Wilkinson, 1945
The Humming Bird: a magazine of life & literature reflecting progressive thought, 1957-1962
Songs from Trinidad by Edric Connor, 1958 shown alongside pamphlets promoting Caribbean culture c. 1958
The Lonely Londoners, replacing the existing with: The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon (1987)
Photograph of Thomas Mann’s hands by Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
Portrait of Keith Spalding
Opening of the Sterling Library, 1956