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The First World War Centenary in the UK: ‘A Truly National Commemoration’? [PDF]
Prime Minister David Cameron has called for ‘a truly national commemoration of the First World War’. This article shows this to be problematic, politicised and contested. This is in part due to the elision of English and British histories.
Mycock, Andrew
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Memory and Commemoration [PDF]
Relations between explicit and implicit memory of traumatic events are discussed in context of common memory manipulations for present political reasons. Destructive consequences of stirring up group cohesion with negative emotions are emphasized. Reaction for traumatic event is discussed in context of mourning process.
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The Crimean War of 1853-1856 in the Memory Space of Russia and France
On the example of commemoration of various wars and key historical events, it is possible to reconstruct and comprehend the value orientations of states at certain phases of their development.
Pierre Malinowski, Elena V. Linkova
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This article examines the urban memory of French denominational conflicts over the long term, from 1562 to the beginning of the French Revolution, through annual commemorations.
Maïté Recasens
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Almost every year since 2001, on 13 January, a commemorative plaque dedicated to Mara Buneva is mounted and, on several occasions, demolished in the centre of Skopje.
Trajanovski, Naum
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Towards the end of the 19th century, in much of the world, the emergence of the Nation States has demanded a legitimizing role from History in the conformation of a collective identity and in the search for the consolidation of its origins, resulting in ...
María Celeste Armas +1 more
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War Commemorations 5 Nations Pre-print 2020
We remember the past in order not to repeat it - but does remembrance of war in fact shape support for military or diplomatic approaches to international conflict?
Mengyao Li +3 more
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This paper investigates the delayed transition from memory to history in the works devoted to the Spanish involvement in the French Resistance. To this end, I first analyze the scant historiography dedicated to the subject, and the main publications of a
Diego Gaspar Celaya
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State politics and local celebrations. Commemorations of Kraków’s Jewish past
In 2018, two dates were particularly important for the Kraków’s commemorations: the 75th Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto and the 50th anniversary of March '68.
Kaja Kajder
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This article examines the public commemorations of the battle of Thermopylae held by the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in the wider context of fascist appropriations of classical antiquity.
Eleftheria Ioannidou
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