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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'