Harriet is delighted that Manchester University Press (MUP) will publish her new book entitled Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance, 1933 to 1953. The book, which is a major focus of her AHRC project, will be published in MUP’s prestigious Studies in Design and Material Culture series. It is the first history of documentary exhibitions mounted in Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s to communicate messages of propaganda and political resistance. It will be 80,000 words long and highly illustrated.

The MUP series’ general editors are Christopher Breward and James Ryan. The series’ founding editor was Paul Greenhalgh, whose landmark thematic history of major international exhibitions Ephemeral Vistas: History of the Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, was published by MUP in 1990.

London Pride exhibition at Charing Cross underground station, from Display magazine, March 1941.