Explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain to show how families pushed against state-imposed memorial narratives and created objects to enable themselves to mourn. This is a unique, comparative, and domestic perspective on mourning that makes important contributions to the field of death studies.
Explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain to show how families pushed against state-imposed memorial narratives and created objects to enable themselves to mourn. This is a unique, comparative, and domestic perspective on mourning that makes important contributions to the field of death studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ann-Marie Foster is a historian of twentieth century Britain, with research interests in memory studies, ephemera, the history of death, and public history. They previously worked as a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, and as a Research Fellow at Northumbria University on the AHRC-funded project 'Ephemera and Writing about War, 1914 to the Present'. Ann-Marie is currently a Chancellor's Fellow at Robert Gordon University and an AHRC Early Career Fellow in Cultural and Heritage Institutions based at Imperial War Museums.
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Introduction 1: Receiving Death 2: Governing Death 3: Printing Death 4: Domesticating Death 5: Building Legacy 6: Extending Legacy Conclusion