Restaging the past : historical pageants, culture and society in Modern Britain / / edited by Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Alexander Hutton and Paul Readman

• Pubblicazione: London : , : UCL Press, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetto topico: Pageants - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century
• Persona (resp. second.): BartieAngela; FlemingLinda; FreemanMark <1974->; HuttonAlexander; ReadmanPaul
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Historical Pageants in Yorkshire before the First World War -- A National Church Tells its Story: The English Church Pageant of 1909 -- The Pomp of Obliteration: G. K. Chesterton and the Edwardian Pageant Revival -- Historical Pageants, Citizenship and the Performance of Women's History before Second-Wave Feminism -- Nobility, Duty and Courage: Propaganda and Inspiration in Interwar Women's and Girls' Pageants -- Historical Pageants, Neo-Romanticism and the City in Interwar Britain -- 'A Chorus of Greek Poignancy': Communism, Class and Pageantry in Interwar South Wales -- The 'Quite Ordinary Man' at the Pageant: History, Community and Local Identity in the 1951 Festival of Britain -- 'The Scots' Pageant': The Arbroath Abbey Pageants 1947-2005 -- After the Show is Over ... Souvenirs and Mementos: The Material Culture of Historical Pageants -- 'The Story of Us'? Kynren and the Uses of the Past.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Restaging the past
• ISBN: 1-78735-405-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910412155903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II