Museums in the Second World War : curators, culture and change /

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"Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pearson, Catherine
Other Authors: Keene, Suzanne, Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: London: Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in modern history ;
Subjects:
Museums > Great Britain
Museum curators > Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain.
Social change > Great Britain
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zDwlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR4&dq=9781472479686&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgx4uv29jgAhUE148KHcVrC40Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=9781472479686&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Timeline: Major events around the Second World War and the home front
  • Part I. 1918-1939 : between the wars
  • Between the wars : museums and cultural politics
  • Charting progress : the Markham Report
  • Museums before the war : the context for reform
  • Part II. 1939-1940 : at the start of the war
  • Confronting conflict : collections, closings and openings
  • As war begins : from propaganda to recognition
  • Part III. 1941-1944 : during wartime
  • State support : the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA)
  • Temples to the arts
  • Planning for peacetime
  • Reflections on wartime practice
  • Community engagement, education and exhibitions
  • Audiences in wartime
  • Memory and identity
  • Museum staff and the war
  • Part V. 1944-1949 : the aftermath of the war
  • A national museum service : the final bid
  • The post-war decades : museums in the aftermath of war
  • Part VI. 1950-1964 : from austerity to reconstruction
  • Towards a regional service
  • Conclusions: Museums forget their past
  • Appendix: Primary sources.

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