Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain
By Mark Freeman
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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.
Praise for Restaging the Past
'This book makes a valuable contribution to the history of education, encouraging greater consideration of where and how people are educated beyond the parameters of formal educational institutions. The reader is left in no doubt that pageants were an important cultural and educational phenomenon, which impacted on people’s understanding of the past.'
History of Education
'Restaging the Past has an excellent introduction ... there is something for everyone and all [chapters] are well worth reading for the ideas they raise and approaches they adopt.'The Local Historian
'A wide-ranging study, skilfully stitched together by an impressive introduction and afterword.'
International Journal of Regional and Local History
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