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British National Identity and Memory in the Twentieth Century - Preserving Battlefields, Political Sites, and World's Fairgrounds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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British National Identity and Memory in the Twentieth Century - Preserving Battlefields, Political Sites, and World's Fairgrounds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Britain and the World
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This book explores commemoration practices and preservation efforts
in modern Britain, focusing on the years from the end of the First
World War until the mid-1960s. The changes wrought by war led
Britain to reconsider major historical episodes that made up its
national narrative. Part of this process was a reassessment of
heritage sites, because such places carry socio-political meaning
as do the memorials that mark them. This book engages the four-way
intersection of commemoration, preservation, tourism, and urban
planning at some of the most notable historic locations in England.
The various actors in this process-from the national government and
regional councils to private organizations and interested
individuals-did nothing less than engineer British national memory.
The author presents case studies of six famous British places,
namely battlefields (Hastings and Bosworth), political sites
(Runnymede and Peterloo), and world's fairgrounds (the Crystal
Palace and Great White City). In all three genres of heritage
sites, one location developed through commemorations and tourism,
while the other 'anti-sites' simultaneously faltered as they were
neither memorialized nor visited by the masses. Ultimately, the
book concludes that the modern social and political environment
resulted in the revival, creation, or erasure of heritage sites in
the service of promoting British national identity. A valuable read
for British historians as well as scholars of memory, public
history, and cultural studies, the book argues that heritage
emerged as a discursive arena in which British identity was
renegotiated through times of transitions, both into a democratic
age and an era of geopolitical decline.
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