Curating the Great War

Curating the Great War explores the inception and subsequent development of museums of the Great War and the animating spirit which lay behind them.

The book approaches museums of the Great War as political entities, some more overtly than others, but all unable to escape from the politics of the war, its profound legacies and its enduring memory. Their changing configurations and content are explored as reflections of the social and political context in which they exist. Curating of the Gr...