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Includes tickets and invitation cards to annual dinners and prize-giving ceremonies. Certificates of Fellowship; Bicentenary of the RSA 1954 printed material Council Commemoration Dinner Programme 22 March 1954, held at The Savoy Hotel, London including the guest list, menu and evening entertainment.

RSA/PR/GE/102/10 · Subseries · 1940-1955
Part of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

The Duke of Connaught Prize was administered by the RSA Examinations Department in conjunction with papers set in the 1943 examinations. Prizes were awarded for 'encouragement of knowledge about the British Empire and Anglo-American relations.\nThe 1951 Essay Competition was set up to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition and the 1954 Bicentenary Essay Competition marked the bicentenary of the Society. Competitors were asked to write about life in 'AD2000'

In the immediate post war period the Society organised a number of small exhibitions at the House. The principal exhibition was the 'Exhibition of Exhibitions', the Society's contribution to the commemoration of the 1851 Great Exhibition. Opened on 1st May 1951 by HRH The Princess Elizabeth, President of the Society. it was associated with the Festival of Britain. \nIncludes files and papers on arrangements for the exhibitions, publicity material and catalogues as well as photographs of exhibits and of the opening ceremonies