Restaging the Past (eBook)

lt;p>Angela Bartie is Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. She was a Co-Investigator on the ‘Redress of the Past’ historical pageants project.

Linda Fleming is Research Associate on the ‘History of British Humanism’ project at the University of Glasgow; she was also a Research Associate on the ‘Redress of the Past’ historical pageants project.

Mark Freeman is Reader in Education and Social History at the UCL Institute of Education. He was a Co-Investigator on the ‘Redress of the Past’ historical pageants project.

Alexander Hutton is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at King’s College London. He was a Research Associate on the ‘Redress of the Past’ historical pageants project.

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London. He was Principal Investigator on the ‘Redress of the Past’ historical pageants project.

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Angela
Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Alexander Hutton and Paul Readman

2. Historical
Pageants in Yorkshire before the First World War

Keith
Johnston

3. A National Church Tells
its Story: The English Church Pageant of 1909

 Arthur Burns

 4.
The Pomp of Obliteration: G. K. Chesterton and the Edwardian Pageant Revival

 Michael Shallcross

 5.
 Historical Pageants, Citizenship and the Performance of Women’s History
before Second-Wave Feminism

 Zoë Thomas

 6.
Nobility, Duty and Courage: Propaganda and Inspiration in Interwar Women’s and
Girls’ Pageants

  Amy Binns

 7.
Historical Pageants, Neo-Romanticism and the City in Interwar Britain

Tom
Hulme

 8. ‘A
Chorus of Greek Poignancy’: Communism, Class and Pageantry in Interwar South
Wales

Daryl
Leeworthy

 9. The ‘Quite Ordinary
Man’ at the Pageant: History, Community and Local Identity in the 1951 Festival
of Britain

Alexander
Hutton

 10. ‘The
Scots Pageant’: The Arbroath Abbey Pageants 1947–2005

 Linda Fleming

 11. After the Show
is Over … Souvenirs and Mementos: The Material Culture of Historical Pageants

Ellie
Reid

 12.
    ‘The Story of Us’? Kynren and the Uses of the Past

Angela
Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alexander Hutton and Paul
Readman

 13.
    Afterword

Angela
Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Alexander Hutton and Paul Readman

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