Return to Ladybird Modernism

Back to an optimistic vision of the future from the past

Ladybird books beautifully chronicle thirty years of British postwar progress. Not just in abstract ways, from books on plastics or nuclear power, or by representing the kind of domestic set-up familiar to middle class kids round the country, but also through images of specific places you could go and see and visit. Through the illustrators’ work, be it…