Bartie, A and Fleming, L and Freeman, M and Hutton, A and Readman, P (Eds).
(2020)
Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to ‘pageant fever’. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women’s Institutes, political parties, schools, churches and youth organisations. Pageants were community events, bringing large numbers of people together in a shared celebration and performance of the past; they also involved many prominent novelists, professional historians and other writers, as well as featuring repeatedly in popular and highbrow literature. Although the pageant tradition has largely died out, it deserves to be acknowledged as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change. Indeed, as this book shows, some traces of ‘pageant fever’ remain in evidence today.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-78735-405-0 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787354050 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354050 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2020 Text © Contributors, 2020 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2020 This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Bartie et al. Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain. 2020. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354050 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | British history, Pageants, Modern Britain, Edwardian |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107589 |
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