| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: Founding stories, finding stories -- Transport museums: loving objects and each other -- War and conflict museums: muttering in the corridors of power -- Local history museums: at the centre of the universe -- The museum founders: getting on the footplate -- Conclusions: The micromuseums boom -- Appendix: List of interviews |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of the boom in smalls museums that took place in Britain from the 1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interview materials, it explores why community groups, families and individuals were inspired to set up museums, teasing out the connections between personal experience and national change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2023) |
| Subject |
Small museums -- Great Britain -- History
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Nostalgia -- Great Britain -- History
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Nostalgia.
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Small museums.
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Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History, Local
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056945
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Local history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Butler, Toby, author
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Watts, Jake, author
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| ISBN |
9781526166852 |
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1526166852 |
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9781526166876 |
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1526166879 |
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