Restaging the Past : historical pageants, culture and society in modern Britain / edited by Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, and 2 others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleming, Linda, editor.

Bartie, Angela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages)

Other Title:

Restaging the Past

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

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