1951 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CROWN IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX - Stunning condition and worth so much more with it's box. Coins for Collectors and The Great British Coin Hunt.

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The London Season of the Arts comprised exhibitions specially arranged for the Festival of Britain. They included: Alex Seago, Burning the Box of Beautiful Things: The Development of Post-Modern Sensibility, Oxford University Press, 1995

The University of Brighton Design Archives have digitised many of the Design Council's files relating to the planning of the festival. BBC News – 'Festival village' Trowell marks 60th anniversary". BBC. 22 April 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. a b Powers, Alan (29 June 2011). "Powers, A., "Sixty years on from the Festival of Britain", Architectural Review, 22 June 2011". Architectural-review.com . Retrieved 13 December 2011. The Natural Scene ( Architect: Brian O'Rorke. Theme Convener: Kenneth Chapman. Display Designer: F. H. K. Henrion)Peter Newman, and Ian Smith, "Cultural production, place and politics on the South Bank of the Thames." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24.1 (2000): 9-24. The inscription ‘GEORGIVS VID:G:BR:OMN:REX:F:D:’ is seen towards the top edge, with the value of the coin inscribed towards the bottom edge, ‘FIVE SHILLINGS’. Did It Enter Circulation? The Festival of Britain". Museum of London. 31 August 2001. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013 . Retrieved 13 December 2011.

The Festival was highly popular in every part of Britain. Richard Weight estimates that of the national population of 49 million, about half participated. [77] The Festival largely ignored foreign tourists, with most of the visitors from the Continent being expatriate Britons. [78]

Learn more about modern history

Hoon, Will. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Living Legacy (Department of History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1996). Scott-Moncrieff, George (1951), Living Traditions of Scotland, His Majesty's Stationery Office for The Council of Industrial Design Scottish Committee