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The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953
The Culture of History English Uses of the Past 18001953 Author:Billie Melman 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.