What is... the Festival of Britain Society?

2007-05-30T00:00:00

An organisation created to keep alive the spirit of 1951 is the short answer. Its first informal meeting took place in 1989 after a talk by Abram Games to Portsmouth Philatelic Society on how he came up with the festival logo.

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