TY - BOOK AU - Bartie,Angela AU - Fleming,Linda AU - Freeman,Mark AU - Hutton,Alexander AU - Readman,Paul TI - Restaging the past: historical pageants, culture and society in modern Britain SN - 9781787354074 PB - UCL Press KW - Pageants KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Social life and customs N1 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354050 ER -