Living Legacies 1914-18: From Past Conflict to Shared Future

2014- 2018年第一次世界大战一百周年纪念具有重大意义，不仅因为它提供了一个回顾和重新评估100年前战争对世界的影响的机会，而且因为它是一系列全球化纪念活动中的第一个，这些纪念活动将定义21世纪。“活着的遗产1914- 1918”第一次世界大战参与中心为学者、遗产专家和社区提供了一个交汇点，旨在捕捉和评估塑造正在进行的第一次世界大战百年纪念的活动，并吸引参与纪念活动的人。与此同时，利用这次机会建立更紧密的大学与社区伙伴关系，以帮助一个日益壮大的重要研究群体，他们对过去的兴趣为一战提供了新的见解，并作为百年纪念本身的见证。“生活遗产”的重点是第一次世界大战在英国的当代和持续的共鸣和遗产，了解战争如何在今天，在不同的环境中，在英国和爱尔兰“继续存在”。活着的遗产第一次世界大战参与中心专门从事研究领域，使用考古学，博物馆学，社会政策，创意艺术，地理和历史等学科的方法和方法，为战争及其纪念活动提供独特和另类的见解。通过现在的镜头看过去，生活遗产研究人员特别感兴趣的是思考纪念活动是如何复杂的(1)因为它是一种空间行为-它发生在某个地方；(2)因为冲突遗产与过去和现在，人和地方有不同的联系，它本质上是有争议的，可以将过去的冲突延续到今天。当时，第一次“全球战争”的纪念活动远不是到处都一样，而是非常本地化，而且由于纪念活动发生的地点不同，对那些参与其中的人来说，这是独特的、有意义的，甚至是有争议的。随着第一次世界大战一百周年在英国权力下放的背景下展开，在“国中之国”的背景下展开，这个地方在纪念实践中的特殊性的意义变得非常明显。“生活遗产”横跨英格兰、威尔士、苏格兰和北爱尔兰，通过与来自英国各地的公共组织和机构以及对一战感兴趣的当地社区团体合作，探索第一次世界大战纪念实践和跨国身份这一主题。这包括与从事高级别论坛资助项目的社区团体建立密切的工作关系，特别是作为高级别论坛“第一次世界大战：过去和现在”计划的一部分。作为社区和学术研究人员之间生活遗产形成的伙伴关系的结果，该中心旨在利用过去的冲突和有争议的遗产作为在英国建立新的积极关系的基础，共同的未来，第一次世界大战及其纪念活动不仅从不同的社区和学术角度得到更好的理解，而且还创造了百年纪念本身的遗产。这些遗产将提醒未来的人们，他们希望知道，在21世纪，来自英国各地的国家是如何回顾和记住这一最重大的全球事件的。为此，“活着的遗产”研究将产生一系列艺术和人文学科的成果，从学术著作到网站和数字数据，再到表演和展览，所有这些都将对1914年至1918年间战争对英国和爱尔兰的影响提供更深入、更批判性的理解，同时也为那些寻求纪念和记住“结束所有战争的战争”的人提供记录。

The 2014-18 Centenary of World War I is of enormous significance, not just because it offers an opportunity to look back and re-evaluate the impacts the war had on the world a hundred years ago, but because it is the first in a series of globalised acts of commemoration that will define the 21st century. The 'Living Legacies 1914-18' WW1 Engagement Centre provides a meeting point between academics, heritage professionals, and communities, designed to capture and evaluate activities shaping the ongoing the Centenary of WW1 and engage those involved in its commemoration, while at the same time use this as an opportunity to forge closer university-community partnerships to assist a growing and important community of researchers whose interests in the past offer new insights into WW1 as well as stand as a testimony to the Centenary itself. The focus for Living Legacies is on the contemporary and continued resonances and legacies of WW1 in the UK, understanding how the war 'lives on' today, in different settings, across Britain and Ireland. The Living Legacies WW1 Engagement Centre specialises in areas of research that offer unique and alternative insights into both the war and its commemoration, using methods and approaches from the disciplines of archaeology, museology, social policy, creative arts, geography and history. Looking at the past through the lens of the present, Living Legacies researchers are interested especially in thinking through how commemoration is complex (1) because it is a spatial act - it takes place somewhere - and (2) because conflict heritage variously links past and present, people and places, it is inherently contested and can perpetuate past conflicts into the present-day. Far from being the same everywhere then, current commemoration of the first 'global war' is very much localised, and made distinctive, meaningful and even contentious to those involved because of the very places commemoration occurs. The significance attached to the particularity of the place in commemorative practice is becoming very evident as the Centenary of WW1 unfolds within the context of a devolved UK, across 'nations within the nation'. Spanning England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Living Legacies is exploring this theme, of WW1 commemorative practices and transnational identities, by working with partners drawn from a range of public organisations and bodies across the UK, as well as local community groups interested in WW1. This involves having a close working-relationship with community groups working on projects funded by the HLF, especially as part of the HLF "First World War: Then and Now" programme.As a consequence of the partnerships formed by Living Legacies between community and academic researchers, the Centre aims to use a past conflict and contested heritage as a basis to build new and positive relationships across the UK, a shared future in which WW1 and its commemoration is not only better understood from different community and academic perspectives, but also creating legacies of the Centenary itself. These legacies will stand as a reminder to those in the future who wish to know how, in the 21st century, nations from across the UK looked back and remembered this most momentous of global events. To this end, Living Legacies research will result in a series of arts and humanities outputs, from scholarly works, to web-sites and digital data, to performances and exhibitions, all offering a deeper and more critical understanding of the impacts the war had on Britain and Ireland between 1914 and 1918, as well as a record of those who sought to commemorate and remember 'the war to end all wars'.