1st Edition

Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain

By Andy Pearce Copyright 2014
324 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain has an annually commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. What has prompted this development,... Read more

1. Introduction: British Holocaust Consciousness – From Past into Present  Part I: Education  2. "Holocaust Education", But Not as We Know It  3. The Holocaust in the Curriculum  Part II: Memorialisation, Musealization, Commemoration  4. "Private" Spaces of Memory?: Hyde Park and the Holocaust Centre  5. The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition  6. Holocaust Memorial Day  Part III: The Cultural Hinterland  7. A Cultural "Turn"  8. Cultural Tensions.  Postscript

Biography

Andy Pearce is Lecturer in Holocaust and History Education at the Centre for Holocaust Education, Institute of Education, University of London. He is also the Reviews Editor for Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

'With this book, Andy Pearce provides the necessary and long overdue update to Tony Kushner’s seminal research on the place of the Holocaust in British culture. This new study is very welcome, because in the last twenty years Britain’s engagement with the Holocaust has grown considerably.. Andy Pearce’s work will play a major role in shaping scholarly debates on the place of the Holocaust in British memory culture.'-Emiliano Perra, University of Winchester