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The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain, 1905-2016

纠正过去：英国的历史盛会，1905-2016

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K003887/1
负责人：
Paul Readman
金额：
$ 99.08万
依托单位：
King's College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK003887%2F1
关键词：
Redress Past Historical Pageants Britain

项目摘要

Twentieth-century Britain was subject to regular bouts of 'pageant fever'. Communities of all sizes and character across England, Scotland and Wales staged theatrical re-enactments of events from local and national history with thousands of men, women and children involved as performers, organizers and spectators. This was national costume drama on a grand scale. Over the course of the twentieth century many hundreds of events were mounted by communities and institutions, ranging from small churches and village communities to large cities such as Liverpool and Manchester. In addition, institutions as diverse as the Army, the Church of England the Women's Co-operative Guild also staged historical pageants. The fever was especially intense at certain times, notably the Edwardian era, the 1930s and 1950s (encouraged by the Festival of Britain and the 1953 Coronation), but the tradition never fully died out and there were revivals in the 1970s and during the millennium celebrations. A distinctive feature of historical pageantry has been the involvement not only of communities but also of prominent individuals, such as G.K. Chesterton and G.M. Trevelyan.Drawing on oral and written evidence, this project is a landmark intervention. It will provide an authoritative treatment of a subject that has largely escaped academic scrutiny despite the rich insights that these apparently ephemeral events can give into popular understandings of the past. The project also offers key insights into the role of 'heritage' in leisure activities, the interaction between local, national and imperial identities, and the character of community life. Differences and similarities between the regions and nations of Britain, and continuities and changes over time, are central to the project and will be explored in depth. The comprehensive coverage of local events - based on geographically dispersed sources - will support, stimulate and publicize the activities of local historians and historical associations, and provide a useful resource for all those interested in the history of communities and institutions, including schools. It will recover the stories that communities and institutions told about themselves. It will result in a comprehensive database of historical pageants, a monograph envisaged as the key book on the subject, and an edited volume of essays situating the British movement in its international context. Every historical pageant for which any significant record exists comes under the scope of the study and the interactive publicly-accessible resource at its centre.The website will include general commentary on the pageant movement, representative images of pageant-related ephemera, and oral testimonies from witnesses to historical pageants. It will allow interaction between the public and the project, enabling individual users and local history societies - some of whom will be actively involved in the project - to contribute their own memories and memorabilia. It will feature interactive maps, allowing users to locate pageant venues and to track the incidence of performances and themes over time. The website will be an important tool for historians, as well as scholars of literature and drama, historical geography and cultural studies. Through the database, these users will be able to access and process a vast body of information relating to the content, organization and experience of historical pageants, allowing the exploration of, for example, the evolving depiction of specific historical events and themes, the authorship of pageant scripts, and constructions of popular memory. The database will also encourage wider use of pageant-related archival holdings by academic and other users. The project will thus enhance academic and non-academic understandings of an important twentieth-century phenomenon, drawing together a remarkably rich collection of visual, oral and textual resources, much of which is on the verge of being lost.

20世纪的英国经常爆发“选美热”。英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士的各种规模和特点的社区上演了戏剧性的地方和国家历史事件重演，成千上万的男人、女人和儿童作为表演者、组织者和观众参与其中。这是一部规模宏大的民族古装剧。在整个世纪，从小教堂和乡村社区到利物浦和曼彻斯特等大城市，社区和机构举办了数百次活动。此外，军队、英格兰教会、妇女合作协会等各种机构也举办了历史性的盛会。这种狂热在某些时期特别强烈，特别是爱德华时代，20世纪30年代和50年代（受到英国节和1953年加冕礼的鼓励），但传统从未完全消失，在20世纪70年代和千禧年庆祝活动期间有复兴。历史奇观的一个显著特点是不仅有社区的参与，而且有杰出的个人，如G. K。切斯特顿和通用汽车公司根据口头和书面证据，这个项目是一个里程碑式的干预。它将提供一个权威的治疗的主题，已在很大程度上逃避学术审查，尽管丰富的见解，这些显然短暂的事件可以给到过去的流行理解。该项目还提供了关键的见解，“遗产”在休闲活动中的作用，地方，国家和帝国身份之间的相互作用，以及社区生活的特点。英国各地区和国家之间的差异和相似之处，以及随着时间的推移的连续性和变化，是该项目的核心，将深入探讨。对地方事件的全面报道-以地理上分散的消息来源为基础-将支持、促进和宣传地方历史学家和历史协会的活动，并为所有对社区和机构包括学校的历史感兴趣的人提供有用的资源。它将恢复社区和机构讲述自己的故事。它将产生一个全面的历史盛会数据库，一本专着，设想作为关于这一主题的关键书籍，以及一本编辑的论文集，将英国运动置于其国际背景下。每一个有重要记录的历史性选美比赛都在研究的范围之内，互动的公共资源是研究的中心。该网站将包括对选美运动的一般评论，与选美有关的短暂的代表性图像，以及历史性选美比赛目击者的口头证词。它将允许公众和项目之间的互动，使个人用户和当地历史学会-其中一些将积极参与该项目-贡献自己的记忆和纪念品。它将以交互式地图为特色，允许用户定位选美场地，并随着时间的推移跟踪表演和主题的发生率。该网站将成为历史学家以及文学和戏剧、历史地理和文化研究学者的重要工具。通过该数据库，这些用户将能够访问和处理与历史盛会的内容、组织和经历有关的大量信息，从而可以探索具体历史事件和主题的演变描述、盛会脚本的作者以及大众记忆的构建等。该数据库还将鼓励学术界和其他用户更广泛地使用与选美有关的档案。因此，该项目将提高学术和非学术的一个重要的二十世纪的现象的理解，汇集了视觉，口头和文本资源，其中大部分是濒临失传的非常丰富的集合。