Time's Witness by Rosemary Hill
Time's Witness by Rosemary Hill
SKU: B9780141047096 • Barcode: 9780141047096

Time's Witness

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: European history
  • Genre / subject: Social and cultural history
  • Author: Rosemary Hill
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Time's Witness by Rosemary Hill is a history book for adult readers.

A brilliant exploration of how our understanding of the past was transformed between the French Revolution and the Great Exhibition by a band of long-forgotten antiquaries Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people.

Oral history, costume history, the history of food and furniture, of Gothic architecture, theatre and much else were explored as never before. Antiquarianism, the study of the material remains of the past, was not new, but now hundreds of men - and some women - became antiquaries and set about rediscovering their national history, in Britain, France and Germany. The Romantic age valued facts, but it also valued imagination and it brought both to the study of history.

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