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The Old London Street at the International Health Exhibition, South Kensington, London. From The Builder (17 May 1884). Source: Welcome Collection, public domain.
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The study of national representations at world fairs could provide a strong incentive to the field of nationalism studies, since it enables the construction of national identities to be studied as a global process. This way, it can be shown that the process of national identity construction during the heyday of the world fairs between 1851 and the...
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... to represent the city's own past. Thus, Old London, an ensemble with twenty-five reconstructed historical buildings at the International Health Exhibition of 1884, was a huge success among visitors. As a result, similar large-scale representations of the architectural heritage of the host city became a regular feature of subsequent exhibitions [ Fig. 1]. 3 Stateless nations, such as Scotland, Flanders and Catalonia, had difficulties participating in their own right at world fairs, but they were particularly active in organizing major international exhibitions themselves. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Antwerp, and Barcelona, for instance, organized various world fairs, which helped to give them ...
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