A review of Smith, Mark S. Poetic Heroes: Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014. xxiv1636 pp. $55.00 (paper)
Doak, Brian R.
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'Sedimented histories' and 'embodied legacies': Creating an evaluative framework for understanding public engagement with the First World War [PDF]
This article reflects on the development of a new methodological framework for the evaluation of the impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories, one of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's First World War Engagement Centres.
Allwork Larissa
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Coloniser discourses in Capital Television nightly news, Waitangi Day 1996 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University [PDF]
Coloniser's discourses which attempted to justify and redeem many of the devastating processes of colonisation around the world have been (re)constructed and repeated in Aotearoa since the 1840's.
Collett, Jenny Alison
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Minou Schraven, Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration (Farnham and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2014), xviii + 320 pp., 13 tables, 51 b/w illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6524-3. Price £70 (hardback) [PDF]
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Richards, John
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Book review: history, heritage and tradition in contemporary British politics [PDF]
This book explores the use of the past in modern British politics. It examines party political perspectives on British history and the historical process, and also looks at the ways in which memory is instituted within the parties in practice, through ...
Cowman, Krista
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Death and memory on the Home Front: Second World War commemoration in the South Hams, Devon [PDF]
This is the publisher's PDF of an article published in Cambridge archaeological journal© 2010. The definitive version is available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CAJThis article discusses two World War II monuments - the ...
Walls, Samuel, Williams, Howard
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L’invention des commémorations homosexuelles
This article focuses on the construction of a homosexual collective memory based on the persecution suffered during World War Two. The analysis of this process shows how a social group, originally stigmatized, succeeded in a relatively short time in ...
Régis Schlagdenhauffen
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Symbolic legacies of slavery in Guyana
Focusses on the commemoration and symbolic functions of the slavery past in the Americas, with a particular focus on Guyana. Author explains that while symbolic representations of the legacies of slavery increased in the Americas since the 1960s, the ...
Alvin O. Thompson
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Commemorating history, historicising commemoration
This essay offers a combination of historical, editorial and commemorative approaches to the process of historicising the practices of remembering the Easter Rising in Ireland. Considered one of the most defining historical moments that has shaped the present-day Ireland and its relationships with Great Britain, the Easter Rebellion of 1916 was ...
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The Future of Civil War History
In March 2013, hundreds of academics, preservationists, consultants, historical interpreters, museum professionals, living historians, students, K-12 teachers, and new media specialists gathered in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to assess the state and ...
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