Ann-Marie Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3885725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann-Marie Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann-Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3451-8601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
This introduction lays out the case for Humanities scholars approaching the study of modern war through the lens of ephemera. Noting a range of pertinent scholarship published in the last two decades that draws on ephemera as sources, it explores the twentieth century as a coinciding of mass-produced ephemera and mass-participation warfare that generated its own ephemera in vast numbers. The special issue editors argue that by expanding our defin…
Hiding in Plain Sight? Understanding War Through Ephemera
When the First World War broke out in 1914, ephemera quickly became a key way of understanding and recording the conflict. From collection drives through to postcards home, people at all levels embraced the communicative nature of ephemera, using it to document, remember, and share understandings of the war. However, this wide-ranging appreciation of ephemeral material has not always been fully appreciated by historians, who are often reticent to…
Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.In the years following the First World War, memoirs of combatants and those who experienced war in other roles proliferated the print market with their autobiographies. People made sense of their war experiences through writing, describing where and how they had experienced the conflict, making sense of the war's place in their life narrative. This writing hinged on eph…
The Memorial Afterlives of Online Crowdsourcing
From May 2014 to March 2019 the Imperial War Museums launched a large-scale digital crowdsourcing project, 'Lives of the First World War'. 'Lives' melded official and unofficial datasets to create an integrated database of people who had participated in the First World War. Over the course of the project 7.7 million individual histories were collected. After the initial collection phase, 'Lives' became a permanent digital memorial and database. T…
Complicated Pasts, Promising Futures
This overview article explores the nature of public history on the island of Ireland, discussing current trends in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Family history and digital history are highly popular ways of engaging with the past, both on the island and among the Irish diaspora, who have a voracious appetite for engaging with their heritage. Given that the island contains a postcolonial society (Republic of Ireland) and a post-con…
The Bureaucratization of Death
After the First World War the British state tried to show the families of the dead their thanks, and memorialize the dead, through the two-minute silence and the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. However, before families of deceased servicepeople encountered the state through national commemorations they encountered it through the administrative paperwork of death. Other than brief mentions in wider works, the bureaucracy of death is r…
The Barry Urban District Council, disaster relief funds and civic society, 1913–1934
The early twentieth century witnessed some of the worst mining disasters the UK has ever seen. Towns and cities leapt to the aid of bereaved families, raising tens of thousands of pounds in aid. Yet, while the effects of disaster funds on the locality in which they were administered have been the focus of scholarly work, little attention has been given to how these funds were created in constituencies outside of the disaster zone. The Barry Urban…
“We Decided the Museum Would Be the Best Place for Them”
Although it is generally considered that there was relatively little interest in the First World War throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, these decades constitute a key moment in time when the embodied memories of the war transitioned into the cultural memory we are familiar with today. This article examines the transmission of memories of the First World War from veterans and their families to museums. It uses the Durham Light Infantry Mus…
The Bureaucratization of Death
After the First World War the British state tried to show the families of the dead their thanks, and memorialize the dead, through the two-minute silence and the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. However, before families of deceased servicepeople encountered the state through national commemorations they encountered it through the administrative paperwork of death. Other than brief mentions in wider works, the bureaucracy of death is r…
The Barry Urban District Council, disaster relief funds and civic society, 1913–1934
The early twentieth century witnessed some of the worst mining disasters the UK has ever seen. Towns and cities leapt to the aid of bereaved families, raising tens of thousands of pounds in aid. Yet, while the effects of disaster funds on the locality in which they were administered have been the focus of scholarly work, little attention has been given to how these funds were created in constituencies outside of the disaster zone. The Barry Urban…
“We Decided the Museum Would Be the Best Place for Them”
Although it is generally considered that there was relatively little interest in the First World War throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, these decades constitute a key moment in time when the embodied memories of the war transitioned into the cultural memory we are familiar with today. This article examines the transmission of memories of the First World War from veterans and their families to museums. It uses the Durham Light Infantry Mus…
The Barry Urban District Council, disaster relief funds and civic society, 1913–1934
The early twentieth century witnessed some of the worst mining disasters the UK has ever seen. Towns and cities leapt to the aid of bereaved families, raising tens of thousands of pounds in aid. Yet, while the effects of disaster funds on the locality in which they were administered have been the focus of scholarly work, little attention has been given to how these funds were created in constituencies outside of the disaster zone. The Barry Urban…
The Bureaucratization of Death
After the First World War the British state tried to show the families of the dead their thanks, and memorialize the dead, through the two-minute silence and the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. However, before families of deceased servicepeople encountered the state through national commemorations they encountered it through the administrative paperwork of death. Other than brief mentions in wider works, the bureaucracy of death is r…
The Memorial Afterlives of Online Crowdsourcing
From May 2014 to March 2019 the Imperial War Museums launched a large-scale digital crowdsourcing project, 'Lives of the First World War'. 'Lives' melded official and unofficial datasets to create an integrated database of people who had participated in the First World War. Over the course of the project 7.7 million individual histories were collected. After the initial collection phase, 'Lives' became a permanent digital memorial and database. T…
Complicated Pasts, Promising Futures
This overview article explores the nature of public history on the island of Ireland, discussing current trends in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Family history and digital history are highly popular ways of engaging with the past, both on the island and among the Irish diaspora, who have a voracious appetite for engaging with their heritage. Given that the island contains a postcolonial society (Republic of Ireland) and a post-con…
Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.In the years following the First World War, memoirs of combatants and those who experienced war in other roles proliferated the print market with their autobiographies. People made sense of their war experiences through writing, describing where and how they had experienced the conflict, making sense of the war's place in their life narrative. This writing hinged on eph…
Introduction
This introduction lays out the case for Humanities scholars approaching the study of modern war through the lens of ephemera. Noting a range of pertinent scholarship published in the last two decades that draws on ephemera as sources, it explores the twentieth century as a coinciding of mass-produced ephemera and mass-participation warfare that generated its own ephemera in vast numbers. The special issue editors argue that by expanding our defin…
Hiding in Plain Sight? Understanding War Through Ephemera
When the First World War broke out in 1914, ephemera quickly became a key way of understanding and recording the conflict. From collection drives through to postcards home, people at all levels embraced the communicative nature of ephemera, using it to document, remember, and share understandings of the war. However, this wide-ranging appreciation of ephemeral material has not always been fully appreciated by historians, who are often reticent to…
History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Spanish Civil War (3 works) · World War II (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ephemera (2 works) · First world war (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works)