Restaging the past : historical pageants, culture and society in modern Britain /
Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of pageants in Britain, ranging from its Edwardian origins to the present day. The volume highlights pageants as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
UCL Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical Pageants in Yorkshire before the First World War
- 3. A National Church Tells its Story: The English Church Pageant of 1909
- 4. The Pomp of Obliteration: G.K. Chesterton and the Edwardian Pageant Revival
- 5. Historical Pageants, Citizenship and the Performance of Women's History before Second-Wave Feminism
- 6. Nobility, Duty and Courage: Propaganda and Inspiration in Interwar Women's and Girls' Pageants
- 7. Historical Pageants, Neo-Romanticism and the City in Interwar Britain
- 8. 'A Chorus of Greek Poignancy': Communism, Class and Pageantry in Interwar South Wales
- 9. The 'Quite Ordinary Man' at the Pageant: History, Community and Local Identity in the 1951 Festival of Britain
- 10. 'The Scots' Pageant': The Arbroath Abbey Pageants 1947-2005
- 11. After the Show is Over ... Souvenirs and Mementos: The Material Culture of Historical Pageants
- 12. 'The Story of Us'? Kynren and the Uses of the Past
- 13. Afterword
- Index
