Post-War Progress (1945-1959) Gallery
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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.
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Sketch of Les Ballet Negres by exiled Austrian artist Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag, 1946
![](/sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_tiny/public/2021-06/Feliks%20Topolski%20Confessions%20of%20an%20Artists%20Delegate%201949.jpg?itok=YdIHcfMN 400w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_small/public/2021-06/Feliks%20Topolski%20Confessions%20of%20an%20Artists%20Delegate%201949.jpg?itok=7HtOLBP1 750w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_medium/public/2021-06/Feliks%20Topolski%20Confessions%20of%20an%20Artists%20Delegate%201949.jpg?itok=kS993YRL 1000w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_large/public/2021-06/Feliks%20Topolski%20Confessions%20of%20an%20Artists%20Delegate%201949.jpg?itok=l4tWCOD1 1300w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_huge/public/2021-06/Feliks%20Topolski%20Confessions%20of%20an%20Artists%20Delegate%201949.jpg?itok=8-YwEhQ- 1600w)
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
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First edition of In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming, 1953 & Letter from George Lamming to CLR James, 1957
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Labour Party Song Book: labour anthems, traditional songs & community favourites, 1955
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Diary of a visit by children from Liverpool to Grundlsee, Austria, 1949
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New worlds. Vol. 1, no. 1: a fiction magazine of the future, 1946
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Dell O'Dell: on both sides of the footlights by Dell O’Dell, c1946
![](/sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_tiny/public/2021-06/Lady%20Chatterley%27s%20Lover%201946%20pirate%20Egyptian%20edition.jpg?itok=BgzQj4w2 400w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_small/public/2021-06/Lady%20Chatterley%27s%20Lover%201946%20pirate%20Egyptian%20edition.jpg?itok=DIEeeaNI 750w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_medium/public/2021-06/Lady%20Chatterley%27s%20Lover%201946%20pirate%20Egyptian%20edition.jpg?itok=oCD1edYC 1000w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_large/public/2021-06/Lady%20Chatterley%27s%20Lover%201946%20pirate%20Egyptian%20edition.jpg?itok=z93L0h7n 1300w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_huge/public/2021-06/Lady%20Chatterley%27s%20Lover%201946%20pirate%20Egyptian%20edition.jpg?itok=mBlUhage 1500w)
The first Lady Chatterley / by D. H. Lawrence; with a foreword by Frieda Lawrence, c. 1946
![](/sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_tiny/public/2021-06/Ellen%20Wilkinson%20-%20Plan%20for%20Peace%201945.jpg?itok=F3l0PRE7 400w, /sites/default/files/styles/uncropped_small/public/2021-06/Ellen%20Wilkinson%20-%20Plan%20for%20Peace%201945.jpg?itok=E_EEF0M5 673w)
Plan for peace: how the people can win the peace by Ellen Wilkinson, 1945
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The Humming Bird: a magazine of life & literature reflecting progressive thought, 1957-1962
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Songs from Trinidad by Edric Connor, 1958 shown alongside pamphlets promoting Caribbean culture c. 1958
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The Lonely àËÅöÊÓƵers, replacing the existing with: The Lonely àËÅöÊÓƵers by Samuel Selvon (1987)
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Photograph of Thomas Mann’s hands by Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
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Portrait of Keith Spalding
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Opening of the Sterling Library, 1956