And those who live, how shall I tell their fame?' Historical pageants, collective remembrance and the First World War, 1919-39
Historical pageants, collective remembrance and the First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4898693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Bartie (University of Edinburgh), Linda Fleming (University of Glasgow), Mark Freeman (0000-0003-4521-2720, U.C.L. Institute of Education, corresponding author), Tom Hulme (0000-0001-8461-6926, Queen's University Belfast), Paul Readman (0000-0003-4051-2134, King's College London), Charlotte Tupman (0000-0002-4008-024X, University of Exeter) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 249 |
| Pages | 636-661 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2281.12189 |
| OpenAlex | W2505913990 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
Edwardian Britain suffered from a severe bout of what contemporaries referred to as 'pageant fever'. Up and down the country, communities small and large staged theatrical re-presentations of incidents in their and the nation's past. Many historians have commented on this Edwardian enthusiasm, and specifically on the tendency to shy away from depicting more recent events in historical pageants. Fewer, however, have noted the continuing vitality of the pageant movement as a key element in cultures of informal education and the theatrical history of the interwar period. In this paper we examine how pageants after the First World War depicted the events of the conflict. Although most pageants still focused on the distant past, the war was almost a reference point, and sometimes the subject of an actual scene. We consider the evolution of depictions of the war, and the various ways in which it was considered appropriate and suitable to commemorate the events of the conflict in dramatic form. Pageants were an important and often overlooked way of conveying messages of victory, sacrifice and regret, and as such can be seen as a central feature of memorialisation and popular education during the interwar period
Aesthetics · Allegory · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · First world war · Interwar period · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |