Printing, Writing and a Family Archive
Recording the First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Millie Barrett (0000-0002-1981-1976, Queen Mary University of London), P Stallybra, Peter Stallybrass (East Harlem Tutorial Program) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-32 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbs044 |
| OpenAlex | W2150213016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
‘Printing, Writing and a Family Archive: Recording the First World War’ explores the Layton Family Archive, which is housed in an eighteenth-century box. In 1890, this box became a secular reliquary, housing memorials to Gerald Layton, who had died as an infant. The memorials included clothing, toys, pressed flowers, and hair. But by 1930 the reliquary had been transformed into an archive, including materials about Gerald’s brother Eric Layton, who was killed in action in 1916 at the Somme. This archive was constituted by disposing of nearly all the non-textual objects and giving a central place to a wide variety of blank forms and blank books, including birth and death certificates, postcards, military and naval forms, diaries, birthday and gardening books. Focusing on the interaction between printing and manuscript, we analyze how ‘personal’ writing is shaped by printed blank forms and books, which are both an incitement to and a material constraint upon writing and upon the ways in which we record and remember.
Action (physics) · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Blank · Brother · Clothing · Gunpowder · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Engineering · History · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |