Foster, Ann-Marie (2019) “We Decided the Museum Would Be the Best Place for Them”: Veterans, Families and Mementos of the First World War. History & Memory, 31 (1). pp. 87-117. ISSN 0935-560X
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Abstract
Although it is generally considered that there was relatively little interest in the First World War throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, these decades constitute a key moment in time when the embodied memories of the war transitioned into the cultural memory we are familiar with today. This article examines the transmission of memories of the First World War from veterans and their families to museums. It uses the Durham Light Infantry Museum, a small regimental museum in the northeast of England, as a case study to examine who donated war-related objects and their reasons for doing so.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | First World War, family transmission, war museums, generations, personal memory, institutional memory, material culture |
| Subjects: | V200 History by area V300 History by topic V900 Others in Historical and Philosophical studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Branson |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2021 13:55 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2021 14:00 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/47067 |
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