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

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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Place / Publishing House:London : : UCL Press,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages)
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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.