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The Edinburgh Festival is the world’s largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous `culture wars’ since it began in 1947. Key debates that took place across the western world about the place of culture in society, the practice and significance of the arts, censorship, the role of organised religion, and meanings of morality were all reflected in contest over culture in the Festival City. This book explores the `culture wars’ of 1945–1970 and is the first major study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza.

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...makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of a critical time. - Christopher Hilliard, University of Sydney, Journal of British Studies 53.3

...makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of a critical time. - Christopher Hilliard, University of Sydney, Journal of British Studies 53.3

'Angela Bartie's history of Edinburgh's summer festivals, from their post-war creation to the early years of the 1970s, deserves to become established as the pre-eminent text on its subject. Written with an eye for detail, an authoritative tone and frequent footnoted references to a broad range of sources, Bartie's history sets itself apart from many of the previous histories of the festivals.' --Book of the Old Edinburgh Club ...makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of a critical time. --Christopher Hilliard, University of Sydney Journal of British Studies 53.3

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Angela Bartie is Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde and co-editor of The International Writers' Conference Revisited: Edinburgh, 1962.

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