History Heritage And Tradition In Contemporary British Politics

Author : Emily Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784993849
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics written by Emily Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the uses of the past in modern British politics. It looks at the way in which political parties construct and remember their pasts through archives, histories and commemorations.

Author : Matthew Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350190470
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Modern British Politics written by Matthew Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.

Author : Emily Robinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137506644
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Progressive Politics in Modern Britain written by Emily Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the word ‘progressive’ through modern British history, from the Enlightenment to Brexit. It explores the shifting meanings of this term and the contradictory political projects to which it has been attached. It also places this political language in its cultural context, asking how it relates to ideas about progressive social development, progressive business, and progressive rock music. ‘Progressive’ is often associated with a centre-left political tradition, but this book shows that this was only ever one use of the term – and one that was heavily contested even from its inception. The power of the term ‘progressive’ is that it appears to anticipate the future. This can be politically and culturally valuable, but it is also dangerous. The suggestion that there is only one way forward has led to fear and doubt, anger and apathy, even amongst those who would like to consider themselves ‘progressive people’.

Author : Ross J. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317156463
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain written by Ross J. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the hundredth anniversary approaches, it is timely to reflect not only upon the Great War itself and on the memorials which were erected to ensure it did not slip from national consciousness, but also to reflect upon its rich and substantial cultural legacy. This book examines the heritage of the Great War in contemporary Britain. It addresses how the war maintains a place and value within British society through the usage of phrases, references, metaphors and imagery within popular, media, heritage and political discourse. Whilst the representation of the war within historiography, literature, art, television and film has been examined by scholars seeking to understand the origins of the 'popular memory' of the conflict, these analyses have neglected how and why wider popular debate draws upon a war fought nearly a century ago to express ideas about identity, place and politics. By examining the history, usage and meanings of references to the Great War within local and national newspapers, historical societies, political publications and manifestos, the heritage sector, popular expressions, blogs and internet chat rooms, an analysis of the discourses which structure the remembrance of the war can be created. The book acknowledges the diversity within Britain as different regional and national identities draw upon the war as a means of expression. Whilst utilising the substantial field of heritage studies, this book puts forward a new methodology for assessing cultural heritage and creates an original perspective on the place of the Great War across contemporary British society.

Author : W. H. Greenleaf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415303019
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideological Heritage written by W. H. Greenleaf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198714890
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 written by David Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new title in the Oxford Handbooks in History series, offering an authoritative view of British political history from 1800 to 2000, engaging with the sweeping changes in the ways in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world, and suggesting avenues of future research.

Author : Jo Littler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415322119
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Heritage written by Jo Littler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how the heritage industry and cultural policy have responded to questions of nation and national identity

Author : E. Waterton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230292380
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain written by E. Waterton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critique of the dominant conceptualization of heritage found in policy, which tends to privilege the white, middle and upper classes. Using Britain as an illustration, Waterton explores how and why recent policies continue to lean towards the predictable melding of cultural diversity with tendencies of assimilation.

Author : Pedro Ramos Pinto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317537203
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of History? written by Pedro Ramos Pinto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact' and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of History? brings together established and new voices to raise relevant questions, issues and controversies for debate. The chapters are articulated around the themes of public history, the politics of history, the role of history in the shaping of learning and the situation of history in the changing world of education. While this subject is driven differently by the research bodies and councils of different countries, similar debates about the value and place of the academy in society are taking place in the UK, the USA and Europe as well as in other parts of the world. Chapters cover diverse areas of history from this perspective including: public history national histories new technologies and the natural sciences campaigning histories the impact agenda. This collection is a political and intellectual intervention at a time when scholars and readers of history are being asked to explain why history matters and it seeks to intervene in the debates on ‘impact’, on education and on the role of the past in the shaping of our future. Bringing together leading authors from a wide range of fields, The Impact of History? is an accessible and engaging yet polemical and thought-provoking overview of the role of history in contemporary society.

Author : Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198812574
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 written by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 20th-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance. This book addresses this claim, showing that class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways