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oapen-20.500.12657-517892024-03-27T06:16:15Z Restaging the Past Bartie, Angela Fleming, Linda Freeman, Mark Hutton, Alexander Readman, Paul British history cultural history pageants modern Britain performance studies Edwardian community history church G.K.Chesterton second-wave feminism propaganda Greek chorus Festival of Britain Arbroath Abbey Kynren thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts 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. 2021-12-08T12:15:50Z 2021-12-08T12:15:50Z 2020 book ONIX_20211208_9781787354050_21 9781787354050 9781787354067 9781787354074 9781787354081 9781787354098 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51789 eng application/pdf n/a 9781787354050.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781787354050 10.14324/111.9781787354050 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781787354050 9781787354067 9781787354074 9781787354081 9781787354098 UCL Press London open access
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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.
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