Participant Info
- First Name
- Harriet
- Last Name
- Atkinson
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- h.atkinson2@brighton.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Brighton
- Website URL
- https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/harriet-atkinson
- Keywords
- design for propaganda, design for protest, history of museums, history of exhibitions, world's fairs, international exhibitions, professionalisation
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr Harriet Atkinson is a historian of design and culture with an interest in uses of design for propaganda, nation-building and diplomacy, from the 1930s to the present day. From February 2019 to January 2023 Harriet is on research leave as AHRC Leadership Fellow and Principal Investigator on the project ‘”The Materialisation of Persuasion”: Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance, 1933 to 1953’. She is in the process of writing a book entitled Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance, 1933 to 1953 (forthcoming, Manchester University Press). She is also co-editing (with Verity Clarkson and Sarah Lichtman) an essay collection entitled Exhibitions and Transnational Exchange: Art and Design, Borders and Boundaries from 1945 (forthcoming, Bloomsbury 2020). She is making a documentary film about Modernist exhibitions in Britain in collaboration with filmmakers Four Corners (for launch in 2022).
- Recent Publications
https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/harriet-atkinson/publications/
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @HRAtkinson1
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, United Kingdom, United States, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Diplomacy, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Urban History
