Restaging the past : historical pageants, culture and society in modern Britain / edited by Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Alexander Hutton, Paul Readman. - 1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : illustrations.

This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


Electronic reproduction.
London :
UCL Press,
2020.
Available in PDF format.
Description based on contents viewed 24 August 2020.

9781787354074 9781787354067 9781787354050 9781787354081 9781787354098


Pageants--History--Great Britain--20th century.


Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.