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

• TeilnehmendeR: Bartie, Angela,; Fleming, Linda,; Freeman, Mark, 1974-; Hutton, Alexander,; Readman, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

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.