Rememorial WWI: Narratives of Peace In The Tees Valley
- Submitting institution
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Teesside University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 6687947
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Dorman Museum, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The research project, Rememorial WWI, challenges commonly presented narratives of WWI remembrance and explores the socio-historic legacy of the conflict. Through community outreach, archival research and visual communication, the project uncovers, interprets and presents divergent historical research, focused on the period between the Armistice of 1918 and Peace Day 1919. From the outset, the project was authored by designer, Charlie Tait and historian, Dr Ben Roberts.
Transdisciplinary phases of project research, interpretation and communication, explored not only the subject matter, but also modes of research, interpretation, production and communication. These phases included examining the impact of the transdisciplinary process upon: communicating multi-faceted and fragmented issues and opinions; visual representation and signifiers of remembrance; ideas of material culture, and the value of quotidian remembrance; methods of sourcing and communicating historic material. In this manner, the value of contemporary remembrance of WWI was questioned, and knowledge of the legacy of WWI within the Tees Valley and wider society was expanded.
To ensure the area’s diverse social and industrial heritage was fully explored, research from Rememorial WWI was presented at events throughout the Tees Valley sub-region’s five distinct boroughs: Darlington, Crown Street Library; Hartlepool, Hartlepool Art Gallery; Middlesbrough, Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough Reference Library, Teesside Archives; Redcar and Cleveland, Kirkleatham Museum; Stockton-on-Tees, Preston Park Museum, Stockton Library .
The project received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Further support in-kind came from Teesside University, Darlington Council, Hartlepool Council, Middlesbrough Council, Redcar & Cleveland Council, Stockton Council and the Tees Valley Combined Authority. It employed three interns, created two student researcher positions, and involved over thirty volunteers. In addition, an active social media and web presence was maintained to communicate and archive the project. Further to the output delivered, a proposed follow-on project, Rememorial WWI: Transitions of Peace, is planned.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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