Dressing-up and Make Believe

By Roisín Higgins [full_width] [/full_width] Historians have identified a cult of commemoration in the nineteenth century which expressed itself through the erection of monuments and the marking of anniversaries and jubilees. It was fed, some argue, by a fear of cultural amnesia.[i] Pierre Nora famously claimed that ‘We speak so … Continue reading Dressing-up and Make Believe