The Culture of History
English Uses of the Past 1800-1953
ISBN:
019929688X
Date published:
June 2006
Hardback
Price:
£60.00 Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers unexplored aspects of popular history, and unpicks notions of the uncosy past, a place of pleasurable horror and sensationalism, which survived into the 1950s.
