Cambridge Victorian Studies Group: Past vs Present
How did the Victorians rearrange the past? What new pasts did they discover?Jul 13,2009 - Jul 15,2009
Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire
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Conference Topics Include:
The ways in which new discoveries across diverse fields helped shape new disciplines such as geology, biology, linguistics, classics, history and archaeology.
The proliferation of myths of origin - cosmic, geological, biological, historical, and anthropological.
New technologies and tools for investigating the past - such as photography or museology.
Diverse and even contradictory responses to the past from different groups of people.
What the Victorians decided to throw out, and what they decided to keep.
The heritage that the Victorians invented for us - are we still living in a Victorian world?
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- Theme: How did the Victorians rearrange the past? What new pasts did they discover?
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