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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Howard*
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-28T16:15:05Zen
dc.date.available2014-11-28T16:15:05Zen
dc.date.issued2014-05-16en
dc.identifier.citationWilliams, H. (2014). Monument and material reuse at the National Memorial Arboretum. Archaeological Dialogues, 21(1), 75-102. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203814000117en
dc.identifier.issn1380-2038en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1380203814000117en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/336334en
dc.descriptionThis is the author's manuscript of an article published in Archaeological Dialogues.en
dc.description.abstractExploring the relocation and reuse of fragments and whole artefacts, materials and monuments in contemporary commemorative memorials in the United Kingdom (UK), this paper focuses on the National Memorial Arboretum (Alrewas, Staffordshire, hereafter NMA). Within this unique assemblage of memorial gardens, reuse constitutes a distinctive range of material commemoration. Through a detailed investigation of the NMA’s gardens, this paper shows how monument and material reuse, while used in very different memorial forms, tends to be reserved to commemorate specific historical subjects and themes. Monument and material reuse is identified as a form of commemorative rehabilitation for displaced memorials and provides powerful and direct mnemonic and emotional connections between past and present in the commemoration through peace memorials, of military disasters and defensive actions, the sufferings of prisoners of war, and atrocities inflicted upon civilian populations. In exploring monument and material reuse to create specific emotive and mnemonic fields and triggers, this paper engages with a hitherto neglected aspect of late 20th- and early 21st-century commemorative culture.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/monument-and-material-reuse-at-the-national-memorial-arboretum/95127E573EFF1742E812E6C490A2770Een
dc.subjectCommemorationen
dc.subjectGardensen
dc.subjectDeathen
dc.subjectMemorialen
dc.subjectMemoryen
dc.subjectPeaceen
dc.titleMonument and material reuse at the National Memorial Arboretumen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.eissn1478-2294en
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chesteren
dc.identifier.journalArchaeological Dialoguesen
dc.identifier.volume21(1), 75-102.
rioxxterms.versionofrecordhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203814000117
html.description.abstractExploring the relocation and reuse of fragments and whole artefacts, materials and monuments in contemporary commemorative memorials in the United Kingdom (UK), this paper focuses on the National Memorial Arboretum (Alrewas, Staffordshire, hereafter NMA). Within this unique assemblage of memorial gardens, reuse constitutes a distinctive range of material commemoration. Through a detailed investigation of the NMA’s gardens, this paper shows how monument and material reuse, while used in very different memorial forms, tends to be reserved to commemorate specific historical subjects and themes. Monument and material reuse is identified as a form of commemorative rehabilitation for displaced memorials and provides powerful and direct mnemonic and emotional connections between past and present in the commemoration through peace memorials, of military disasters and defensive actions, the sufferings of prisoners of war, and atrocities inflicted upon civilian populations. In exploring monument and material reuse to create specific emotive and mnemonic fields and triggers, this paper engages with a hitherto neglected aspect of late 20th- and early 21st-century commemorative culture.
rioxxterms.publicationdate2014-05-16
dc.date.deposited2014-11-28


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