For historians centennial commemorations furnish an excellent
heuristic tool for gauging late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century attitudes towards the past and the present.
Centenary celebrations helped to revive, perpetuate and reinforce
public perceptions of historical events and people in collective
memory. They were fairly infrequent before 1850 but increased in
size and numbers by the end of the long nineteenth century, so much
so that a 'cult of the centenary' had become established throughout
the wider Western world around 1900. At one level, such events were
ephemeral affairs. And yet many left a lasting legacy. Above all,
as part of the contemporary processes of the 'invention of
traditions' and the conscious national 'self-historicization' of
the established nation-states, they offer crucial insights into the
social, cultural and political dynamics of the period.
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