Remembrance and Memorialisation – Journal Bibliography

For students new to study in this area, the following bibliography which draws upon work with an Arts and Humanities perspective will provide a really useful point to your research.  Our thanks go to Dilip Sarker who put this together with funding from the University of Nottingham.

Aalestad, K., ‘Remembering and Forgetting: The Local and the Nation in Hamburg’s Commemoration of the Wars of Liberation’, Central European History, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2006, pp. 384 – 416, (University of West Virgina).

Ashuri, T., ‘The Nation Remembers: National Identity and Shared Memory in Television Documentaries’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2005, pp. 423 – 442, (Ben Gurion and Tel Aviv Universities).

Bartlett, J., and Ellis, K.M., ‘Remembering the Dead in Northop: First World War Memorials in a Welsh Parish’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 231 – 242, (North East Wales Institute).

Barron, D.S., Davies, S.P., Wiggins, R.D., ‘Social Integration, a Sense of Beginning and the Cenotaph Service: Old Soldiers Reminisce About Remembrance’, Aging and Mental Health, Vol. 12, No. 4, July 2008, pp. 509 – 516, (University of Hertfordshire).

Batista, E., ‘Mythical Reconstruction of the Past: War Commemoration and Formation of Northern Irish Britishness’, Anthropological Notebooks, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2009, pp. 5 – 25 (Independent Researcher).

Bosworth, R.J.B., ‘Nations Examine Their Past: A Comparative Analysis of the Historiography of the “Long” Second World War’, The History Teacher, Vol. 29, No. 4, August 1996, pp. 499 – 523, (University of Western Australia).

Bourke, J., ‘Remembering War’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, October 2004, pp. 473 – 485, (Birbeck College, University of London).

Brearton, F, ‘Cenotaphs of Snow: Memory, Remembrance and the Poetry of Michael Langley’, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2004, pp. 175 – 189, (Queen’s University, Belfast).

Bufton, D.D., ‘Memorialization and the Selling of War’, Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, No. 17, 2005, pp. 25 – 31, (University of Wisconsin).

Campion, M.C., ‘War Games: World War II in the West’, The History Teacher, Vol. 10, No. 4, August 1977, pp. 575 – 585, (Kansas State College of Pittsburg).

Connolly, M., ‘The Ypres League and the Commemoration of the Ypres Salient, 1914 – 1940’, War in History, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2009, pp. 51 – 76, (University of Kent).

Calder, A., ‘Britain’s Good War’, History Today, Vol. 45, No. 5, May 1995, pp. 55 – 7, (Open University).

Carrier, P., ‘The Second World War in the Memory Cultures of France and Germany’, National Identities, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 349 – 366.

Coultass, C., ‘British Feature Films and the Second World War’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 19, No. 1, Historians and Movies: The State of the Art, Part Two, January 1984, pp. 7 – 22, (Imperial War Museum).

Crane, S.A., ‘Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum’, History and Theory, Vol. 36, No. 4, Theme Issue 36: Producing the Past: Making Histories Inside and Outside the Academy, December 1997, pp. 44 – 63, (University of Arizona).

Dawson, D., ‘The “Harefield/ANZAC Bob”: A Study of Thanksgiving and Remembrance in an English Village’, Family and Community History, Vol. 9, No. 1, May 2006, (Oxford Brookes University).

Dick, L., ‘Sergeant Masumi Mitsui and the Japanese Canadian War Memorial’, The Canadian History Review, Vol. 91, No. 3, September 2010, (University of Toronto).

Dodman, T., ‘Going All to Pieces: “A Farewell to Arms” as Trauma Narrative’, Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 52, No. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 249 – 274, (University of Hofstra).

Eksteins, M., ‘All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a War’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 1980, pp. 345 – 366, (University of Toronto).

Eley, G., ‘Finding the People’s War: Film, British Collective Memory, and World War II’, American Historical Review, Vol. 106,  No. 3, June 2001, pp. 818 – 838.

Erll, A, and Rigney, A, ‘Literature and the Production of Cultural Memory: An Introduction’, European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 10 No. 2, August 2006, pp. 111 – 115, (Utrecht University).

Escherbach, I., ‘Soil, Ashes, Commemoration: Processes of Sacralization at the Ravensbrück Former Concentration Camp’, History and Memory, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2001.

Foote, K.E., and Maoz, A., ‘Toward a Geography of Memory: Geographical Dimensions of Public Memory and Commemoration’, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 1, Summer 2007, pp. 125 – 144, (Universities of Colorado and Haifa).

Forner, S.A., ‘War Commemoration and the Republic in Crisis: Weimar Germany and the Neue Wache’, Central European History, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2003, pp. 513 – 549.

Forrester, The Rev’d M., ‘Widows and War’, Expository Times, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 30 – 32, November 2006.

Freedman, J., ‘To Feel Fiercely: Tradition, Heritage, and Nostalgia in English History’, The History Teacher, Vol. 39, No 1, November 2005, pp. 107 – 115, (Friends Select School).

Furlong, J., Knight, L., Slocombe, S., ‘ “They Shall Grow Not Old”: An Analysis of Trends in Memorialisation Based on Information Held by the U.K National Inventory of War Memorials’, Cultural Trends, Vol. 12, No. 45, pp. 3 – 45, (Imperial War Museum).

Geyer, M., ‘The Place of the Second World War in German Memory and History’, New German Critique, No. 71, Spring/Summer 1997, pp. 5 – 37.

Ginty, M., and Williams, A., ‘Introduction: Commemoration and Remembrance in the Commonwealth’, The Round Table, Vol. 96, No. 393, December 1997, (Universities of York and St Andrew’s).

Girvan, B., and Roberts, G., ‘The Forgotten Volunteers of World War II’, History Ireland, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 46 – 51, (University of Glasgow).

Goebel, S., ‘Remembered and Re-Mobilized: The “Sleeping Dead” in Interwar Germany and Britain’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 39, No. 4., Special Issue: Collective Memory, October 2004, pp. 487 – 501, (Churchill College, Cambridge).

Gough, P., ‘Corporations and Commemoration: First World War Remembrance’, Lloyds TSB and the National Memorial Arboretum’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 10, No 5, December 2005, pp. 435 – 455, (University of the West of England).

Gough, P., ‘Fault Lines: Four Short Observations on Places of Peace, Trauma and Contested Remembrance’, Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol. 5, Nos. 1 and 1, 2006, pp. 39 – 48, (University of the West of England).

Grant, S-M., ‘Raising the Dead: War, Memory and American National Identity’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 509 – 529, (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne).

Graves, M., and Rechniewski, E., ‘From Collective Memory to Transcultural Remembrance’, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2010, (Universities of Provence and Sydney).

Gregor, N., ‘“Is He Alive or Long Since Dead?”: Loss, Absence and Remembrance in Nuremburg, 1945 – 1956’, German History, Vol. 21. No. 2, 2003, pp. 183 – 203, (University of Southampton).

Grenzer, E., ‘The Topographies of Memory in Berlin: The Neue Wache and the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe’, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 93 – 110, 2002, (University of York).

Hagerman, A.M., ‘Monumental Play: Commemoration, Post-war Britain, and History Cycles’, Critical Survey, Vol. 22, No. 2, November 2010, pp. 105 – 118.

Hanley, B., ‘Poppy Day in Dublin in the 20s and 30s’, History Ireland, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 5 – 6 (University of Aberdeen).

Harrington, R., ‘The Mighty Hood: Navy, Empire, War at Sea and the British National Imagination, 1920 – 60’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 38, No. 2, April 2003, pp. 171 – 185, (University of York).

Haverkamp, A., ‘The Memory of Pictures: Roland Barthes and Augustine on Photography’, Comparative Literature, Vol. 45, No. 3, 1993, pp. 258 – 279, (University of Oregon).

Heathorn, S., ‘A “matter for artists, and not for soldiers”? The Cultural Politics of the Earl Haig National Memorial, 1928 – 1937’, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3, July 2005, pp. 536 – 561, (University of Chicago).

Hemmings, R., ‘Of Trauma and Flora: Memory and Commemoration in Four Poems of the World Wars’, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 738 – 756, (University of Toronto).

Hopkins, A.G., ‘Back to the Future: From National History to Imperial History’, Past and Present, No. 164, August 1999, pp. 198 – 243, (Pembroke College, Cambridge).

Hughes, A-M. C., ‘War, Gender and National Mourning: The Significance of Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell in Britain’, European Review of History, Vol. 12, No. 3, November 2005, pp. 425 – 444.

Hunt, N., and Robbins, I., ‘World War II Veterans, Social Support, and Veterans’ Associations’, Aging and Mental Health, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2001, pp. 183 – 190, (University of Nottingham).

Hunt, N., and Robbins, I., ‘The Long-Term Consequences of World War II’, Aging and Mental Health, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2001, pp. 175 – 182, (University of Nottingham).

Iles, J., ‘In Remembrance: The Flanders Poppy’, Mortality, Vol. 13, No. 3, August 2008, pp. 201 – 221, (University of Roehampton).

Inglis, K.S., ‘The Homecoming: The War Memorial Movement in Cambridge, England’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 27, No. 4, October 1992, pp. 583 – 605, (Australian National University).

Johnson, D.A., and Gilbertson, N.F., ‘Commemorations of Imperial Sacrifice at Home and Abroad: British Memorials of the Great War’, The History Teacher, Vol. 43, No. 4, August 2010, pp. 563 – 584, (Universities of North Carolina, Charlotte, and North Carolina, Irvine).

Johnston, R., and Ripmeester, M., ‘Awake Anon the Tales of Valour: the Career of War Memorial in St Catherines, Ontario’, The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 404 – 426, (University of St Catherine’s Ontario).

Johnston, R., and Ripmeester, M., ‘A Monument’s Work is Never Done: The Watson Monument, Memory, and Forgetting in a Small Canadian City’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 117 – 135.

Jordan, J.A., ‘Landscapes of European Memory: Biodiversity and Collective Memory’, History & Memory, Vol. 22,  No. 2, pp. 5 – 33, autumn 2010.

Kaiser, A., ‘Performing the New German Past: The People’s Day of Mourning and 27 January as Postunification Commemorations’, German Politics and Society, Issue 89, Vol. 89, Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter 2008, (Universität Tübingen).

Kavanagh, G., ‘Museums as Memorial: The Origins of the Imperial War Museum’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 23, No 1, January 1988, pp. 77 – 97, (University of Leicester).

Langenbacher, E., ‘Still the Unmasterable Past? The Impact of History and Memory in the Federal Republic of Germany’, German Politics, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 24 – 40.

Lawson, T., ‘“The Free-Masonry of Sorrow”? English National Identies and the Memorialization of the Great War in Britain, 1919 – 1931’, History and Memory, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 89 – 120.

Lunn, K., ‘War Memorialisation and Public Heritage in Southeast Asia: Some Case Studies and Comparative Reflections’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2007, pp. 81 – 95.

MacLeod, J., ‘Memorials and Location: Local versus National Identity and the Scottish National War Memorial’, The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 227, April 2010, pp. 73 – 95, (University of Hull).

McKenna, M., and Ward, S., ‘ “It Was Really Moving, Mate”: The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia’”, Australian Historical Studies, No. 129, 2007, pp. 141 – 151, (Universities of Sydney and Copenhagen).

Major, P., ‘“Our Friend Rommel”: The Wehrmacht as “Worthy Enemy” in Postwar British Popular Culture’, German History, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2008, pp. 520 – 520, (University of Reading).

Marshall, D., ‘Making Sense of Remembrance’, Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 37 – 54, (University of Gloucestershire).

Moeller, R.G., ‘War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany’, American Historical Review, October 1996, pp. 1008 – 1048, (University of California).

Moeller, R.G., ‘“Germans as Victims?”: Thoughts on a Post-Cold War History of World War II’s Legacies’, History and Memory, Vol. 17, Nos. 1 and 2, Autumn 2005, pp. 147 – 194.

Moffett, A., ‘War, Literature and the Arts’, An International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2007, pp. 228 – 246, (University of Rhode Island).

Monteath, P., ‘A Day to Remember: East Germany’s Day of Remembrance for Victims of Fascism’, German History, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 195 – 218, (Flinders University of Adelaide).

Morpeth, N., ‘Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat, The Historian’s Craft and World War II: Writing and Teaching Contemporary History’, The European Legacy, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2005, pp. 179 – 195, (University of Newcastle).

Morrissey, J., ‘Ireland’s Great War: Representation, Public Space and the Place of Dissonant Heritages’, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 58, 2006, pp. 98 – 113.

Mortimer, T., ‘A Journey of Reconciliation’, Dublin Historical Record, Vol. 51, No. 1, spring 1998, pp. 62 – 73.

Mosse, G.L., ‘Two World Wars and the Myth of the War Experience’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 21, No. 4, October 1986, pp. 491 – 513, (University of Wisconsin).

Mustafa, S.A., ‘The Politics of Memory: Rededicating Two Historical Moments in Postwar Germany’, Central European History, No. 41, 2008, pp. 255 – 280, (Romapo College of New Jersey).

Neuenschwander, J.A., ‘Remembrance of Things Past: Oral Historians and Long-Term Memory’, Oral History Review, Vol. 6, 1978, pp. 45 – 53, (California State University).

Nolan, M., ‘Germans as Victims During the Second World War: Air Wars, Memory Wars’, Central European History, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2002, pp. 7 – 40, (University of New York).

Officer, D., ‘Re-presenting the War: The Somme Heritage Centre’, History Ireland, Vol. 3, No. 1, spring 1995, pp. 38 – 42, (Queen’s University).

Palti, E.J., ‘The Nation as a Problem: Historians and the “National Question”’, History and Theory, Vol. 40, No. 3, October 2004, pp. 324 – 346, (Wesleyan University).

Porter, P., ‘Beyond Comfort: German and English Military Chaplains and the Memory of the Great War, 1919 – 1929’, The Journal of Religious History, Vol. 29, No. 3, October 2005, pp. 258 – 289, (Magdalene College, Oxford).

Palmer, A., and Minogue, S., ‘Memorial Poems and the Poetics of Memorialising’, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 34, No. 1, August 2006, (Canterbury Christchurch University).

Peifer, D.C., ‘New Books on Memory, History and the Second World War’, Contemporary European History, Vol. 18, No. 9, 2009, pp. 235 – 244.

Quartier, T., Hermans, C.A, and Scheer, A.H.M., ‘Remembrance and Hope in Roman Catholic Funeral Rites: Attitudes of Participants towards Past and Future of the Deceased’, Journal of Empirical Theology, Vol. 17 Issue 2, 2004, pp. 252 – 280, (Radboud University of Nijmegen).

Ramsden, J., ‘Refocusing “The People’s War”: British War Films of the 1950s’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 1998, pp. 35 – 63, (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London).

Robbins, K., ‘Commemorating the Second World War in Britain: Problems of Definition’, The History Teacher, Vol. 29, No. 2, February 1996, (University of Wales).

Rose, S.O., ‘Race, Empire and British Wartime National Identity, 1939 – 45’, Historical Research, Vol. 74, No. 184, May 2010, pp. 210 – 221, (University of Michigan).

Runia, E., ‘Burying the Dead: Creating the Past’, History and Theory, No 46, October 2007, pp. 313 – 325, (University of Groningen).

Saunders, N.J., ‘Excavating Memories: Archaeology and the Great War, 1914 – 2001’, Antiquity, No. 76, 2002, pp. 103 – 108, (University College London).

Saunders, N.J., ‘Crucifix, Calvary and Cross: Materiality and Spirituality in Great War Landscapes’, World Archaeology, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2003, pp. 7 – 21, (Department of Anthrapology, University College, London).

Schwab, R, ‘Acts of Remembrance, Cherished Possessions and Living Memorials’, Generations, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 26 – 30, (Old Dominion University).

Schürer, F., ‘“But in Death He Has Found Victory”: the Funeral Ceremonies of the “Knights of the Sky” During the Great War as Transnational Media Events’, European Review of History, Vol. 15, No. 6, December 2008, pp. 643 – 658, (Justus-Liebig University).

Scutts, J., ‘Battlefield Cemeteries, Pilgrimage and Literature After the First World War: The Burial of the Dead’, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol. 52 No. 4, 2009, pp. 387 – 416, (Columbia University).

Seaton, P., ‘Reporting the 2001 Textbook and Yasukuni Shrine Controversies: Japanese War Memory and Commemoration in the British Media’, Japan Forum, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 287 – 309, (Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Hokkaido University).

Sørenson, N.A., ‘Commemorating the Great War in Ireland and the Trentino: An Essay in Comparative History’, Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 2, 2003, pp. 121 – 139, (Centre for Irish Studies).

Stewart, V., ‘War Memoirs of the Dead: Writing and Remembrance in the First World War’, Literature & History, Vol. 14, Issue 2, Autumn 2005, pp. 37 – 52, (University of the West of England).

Taylor, D., ‘From Fighting the War to Writing the War: From Glory to Guilt?’, Contemporary British History, Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 293 – 313, (University of Huddressfield).

Taylor, M., ‘Patriotism, History and the Left in Twentieth Century Britain’, The Historical Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4, December 1990, pp. 971 – 987, (Girton College, Cambridge).

Travers, D., and Heathorn, S., ‘Collective Remembrance, Second World War Mythology and National Heritage on the Isle of Man’, National Identities, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 2008, pp. 433 – 448, (McMaster University, Canada).

Trevor-Roper, H.R., ‘The Past and Present: History and Sociology’, Past and Present, No. 42, February 1969, pp. 3 – 17, (Oriel College, Oxford).

Vale-Taylor, P., ‘ “We Will Remember them”: a Mixed Method Study to Explore Which Post-Funeral Remembrance Activities Are Most Significant and Important to Bereaved People Living With Loss, and Why Those Particular Activities Are Chosen’, Palliative Medicine, Vol. 23, 2009, pp. 537 – 544, (Hospice in the Weald, Tunbridge Wells, Kent).

Vorster, J. M., ‘Down Memory Lane to a Better Future’, Original Research, Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 321 – 327, (Northwest University).

Walls, S., and Williams, H., ‘Death and Memory of the Home Front: Second World War Commemoration in the South Hams, Devon’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, August 2009, pp. 49 – 66, (Universities of Exeter and Chester).

Weisser, H., ‘Why Are Students So Interested in World War II’, The History Teacher, Vol. 30, No. 1, November 1996, pp. 97 – 101 (Colorado State University).

Wilson, R.J., ‘Memory and Trauma: Narrating the Western Front 1914 – 1918’, Rethinking History, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 2009, pp. 251 – 267, (University of York).

Winter, J., ‘Film and the Matrix of Memory’, American Historical Review, Vol. 106, No. 3, June 2003, pp. 818 – 838.

Wittlinger, R., ‘British-German Relations and Collective Memory’, German Politics & Society, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 42 – 69, Autumn 2007, (University of Durham).