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Exhibition

Race and the League of Nations

Sat 28 Sep – Sun 3 Nov 2024

Angear Visitor Centre

Free

Opening times

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Sunday, 12noon-4pm

Closed Mondays

The League of Nations, born in the ashes of WWI, promised a new world order. Yet, it left the issue of racial equality unresolved.

From Liberia to Ethiopia, this exhibition explores how the race question confronted the League and how the lessons of these years profoundly shaped the creation of the organisation’s successor, the United Nations, in 1945.

This exhibition has been supported by a British Academy Wolfson Foundation Fellowship.

Image: Political Map of Africa, 1914. Library of Congress, Washington DC.

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