Curating the Great War

Paul Cornish was, for 32 years, a curator at Imperial War Museums. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Material Culture and Modern Conflict.Nicholas J. Saunders is Professor of Material Culture at Bristol University, UK, and co-director of the ‘Great Arab Revolt Project‘.

• Introduction: Challenging perspectives on museums and the Great War; PART I: Museums, Identities and the Politics of Memory: Chapter 1: From one war to another: German army museums and exhibitions on the First World War, 1914-1940; Chapter 2: The Great War in French Museums 1914-2018; Chapter 3: Curating on the frontier: The Museum of the Great War in Gorizia, Italy; Chapter 4: Curating Dominion Narratives of the Great War; Chapter 5: Curating the Great War at the Imperial War Museum During the Second World War; PART II: Museums and Materialities: Chapter 6: East of the Jordan: Curating and forgetting the First World War and the Arab Revolt along the Hejaz Railway; Chapter 7: Conflict Landscape as Museum and Memorial: The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic; Chapter 8: Digging a trench in an upstairs gallery: Commemorating the Great War in rural Dorset; Chapter 9. Curating the Great War in Poland: The prisoner-of-war camp at Czersk; Chapter 10: Curating the Macedonian Campaign; Chapter 11: ‘Oh! What a Lovely Exhibition!’: Exploring the Imperial War Museum’s First World War 50th anniversary displays, 1964-1968; Chapter 12: Te Papa’s Gallipoli: The scale of our war: Curating innovation; PART III: Audiences and Engagement: Chapter 13: Curating the Sensory War, 1914-2014: emotions, sensations and the violence of modern war; Chapter 14: Forgotten War? Coping with First World War trauma, and strategies for centenary commemoration in the Federal State of Tyrol, Austria; Chapter 15: Curating the Masonic Peace Memorial, London; Chapter 16: What Need of Tears?: Collaborative memorial-making in the centenary of The Great War; Chapter 17: Contested memories: Exhibiting the Great War in the Ulster Museum, Belfast; Chapter 18: The predicament of material culture: In situ legacies of the Isonzo Front after the First World War centenary (2014–2018); Afterword: Commemorating the First World today: The In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium; Index.