Family Mourning After War and Disaster in Twentieth-Century Britain

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Receiving Death


• 2: Governing Death


• 3: Printing Death


• 4: Domesticating Death


• 5: Building Legacy


• 6: Extending Legacy


• Conclusion

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ann-Marie Foster, Ann-Marie (Chancellor''s Fellow Foster
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2024
• EAN: 9780192872005
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287200-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, First World War, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I