Pilgrimage and Tourism

along the Western Front

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In Flanders Fields Museum en de School of History and Gateways Partnership, University of Kent, presenteren in samenwerking met de Western Front Association en de St. George’s Memorial Church een nieuwe reeks voordrachten over de geschiedenis van de Eerste Wereldoorlog, gratis en voor iedereen toegankelijk. De voertaal is Engels.

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'The light bulb moment when the penny drops'
Pilgrimage and tourism along the Western Front
Amy Harrison (PhD student, University of Kent) 

As the Great War moves ever further into the past, our relationship with the memorial landscape has changed. The modern Western Front exists now as both a site of pilgrimage and a site of tourism; visitors benefit from a highly developed tourist infrastructure alongside remaining war landscape and iconic memorials and cemeteries. This talk will explore ‘’the light bulb moment when the penny drops’ and the experiences which link pilgrims of the present with pilgrims of the past.

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donderdag 18 januari 2024
om 19 uur
educatieve ruimte IFFM (Lakenhallen, Grote Markt, Ieper)

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