In this book, twelve academics examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create context for source analysis. Drawing out common threads to help with the reader's own historical investigation, this book encourages a broad and inclusive approach to the physical and social contexts of historical evidence.
In this book, twelve academics examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create context for source analysis. Drawing out common threads to help with the reader's own historical investigation, this book encourages a broad and inclusive approach to the physical and social contexts of historical evidence.
Sarah Barber is Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University, UK. She publishes widely on early modern Britain, Ireland and the colonial Americas. Her recent work reconfigures colonialism, decolonising the writing of colonial encounter, such as in the monograph, The Disputatious Caribbean (2014). Recovering the voices of the silent and silenced spurs her work to expand historical source material. Corinna M. Peniston-Bird is Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History at Lancaster University, UK. She works on experiences and cultural memories of war, focussing largely on the World Wars. Her interests lie in the disruptive, the excluded and the marginalized and the sources which allow historians that focus. Her recent publications have explored British memorials, wartime cinema and the significance of wartime memories of bananas.
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Introduction 1 Building: Constructing Identities 2 Landscape: Consuming Natural Places 3 Cemeteries: Tracing Sepulchral Cultures 4 Memorials: Associative Meanings 5 Masque and Opera: Staging Performance 6 Radio: Listening to the Airwaves 7 Television: Capturing Performance 8 Digital Surrogates: Archaeological Materialities 9 Objects: Dynamics of Display 10 Clothing: Reading what was Worn 11 Photo Albums: Autobiographical Narrations 12 Scrapbooks: Proliferations of Meaning
