TY - BOOK ID - 3025625 TI - The culture of History : English uses of the Past 1800-1953 PY - 2006 SN - 019929688X 9780199296880 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - History in art. KW - History in literature. KW - History in mass media. KW - Popular culture KW - Historiography. KW - Great Britain KW - France KW - History KW - 930.21 <420> "18/19" KW - Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--Engeland--19e-20e eeuw. Periode 1800-1999 KW - History in art KW - History in literature KW - History in mass media KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Mass media KW - Historical art KW - Art and history KW - Historiography KW - Popular culture - Great Britain - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3025625 AB - 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. - ;In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in t ER -