Museums and the First World War: A Social HistoryThis volume is concerned with how, during four demanding, dislocating and world-changing years, the museum, that most Victorian of institutions, was forced to meet the extraordinary test of war on the home front. Museums were no more immune from the pressures of war than any other institution. Their history reflects the broader history of the home front and the efforts made to do the right thing at the right time. The changes they experienced, some long term, others transitory, do much to explain the nature and character of museums in Britain today. The author covers the progress of museums from just before the advent of war to the immediate post-war period, and considers this in relation to changing social attitudes and economic conditions. |
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 2 |
Museum curators at the annual meeting of the Museums | 16 |
and director of the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool until 1918 | 25 |
MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS AT RISK | 31 |
Removing sandbags in the Northern Egyptian Gallery by Henry | 33 |
Part of the British Museum turned into a store for the property | 47 |
Elijah Howarth Curator of the Public Museum and Mappin | 53 |
War memorial at the British Museum with lines from the poem | 60 |
52 | 99 |
9 | 111 |
ΙΟ | 126 |
War Work Exhibition St Andrews Hall Norwich 1919 | 128 |
II | 133 |
12 | 140 |
13 | 162 |
14 | 168 |
ROLE AND PURPOSE THROUGH EXHIBITIONS | 65 |
Opening of an exhibition of British war photographs at the Peoples | 71 |
I | 83 |
8 | 93 |
61 | 183 |
222 | 190 |
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