Bellman Books
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“In 1955, a secret unit, the Information Research Department (IRD) of the UK Foreign Office (FO) began delivery of Bellman Books around the world. However, there is no detailed research on this book series. This chapter examines Bellman Books as a form of cultural diplomacy and shows how books promoted a favorable national image abroad; how the IRD arranged
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What is freedom? What is democracy? What is communism? What happens to communists? These were pressing questions for the English-speaking world in the 1950s and provided the titles to a series of cheap but well-produced and striking books that are still to be found at reasonable prices in second-hand bookshops and on the shelves of
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In the latest of our occasional series of collector interviews, we talk to Musa Igrek, who won the ABA Book Collecting Prize 2018 for his assemblage of secretly funded government-sponsored works during the Cold War. His collection focuses on propaganda of the 1950s and ‘60s and won the £1000 annual prize at the ABA Chelsea
Musa Igrek 