The New Elizabethan Age (TRIH ep 186)
1953 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Frances Christie (Deputy Chairman of Sotheby's) for a Platinum Jubilee special tied to Sotheby’s exhibition Power and Image: Royal Portraiture and Iconography. Frances selects six objects to illuminate Elizabeth II's reign: Andy Warhol’s colourful portrait of the Queen, a Punch banner cartoon by E. H. Shepard for the 1953 coronation week, one of the special coronation Bibles (1953), Jamie Reid’s Sex Pistols God Save the Queen poster (1977)...
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Around 1953
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)