- Title
- Commemoration of the Great War on the Somme: Exploring personal connections
- Creator
- Winter, Caroline
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/65789
- Identifier
- vital:5140
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2012.694450
- Identifier
- ISSN:1476-6825
- Abstract
- This study was undertaken at two sites on the Somme, France, one of the main battlefields of the Great War (1914-1918). It used a quantitative method and sought to explore the relative strength of two bases of personal connection (family and nation) to interests in visiting the area. The impact of attendance at a commemorative event on visitors' battlefield interests was also explored. The sample at the Thiepval memorial was dominated by British visitors and by Australians at Villers-Bretonneux. The analysis indicated that people with close family connections to the war had higher levels of interest in seeing sites of their family's war-time involvement, desire to pay their respects and historical interest. Attendance at a major national event (Anzac Day) appeared to increase national interest in people who did not have family connections. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
- Relation
- Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Vol. 10, no. 3 (2013), p. 248-263
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1699 Other Studies In Human Society; 2202 History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields; Battlefields; Family; Great War; Nation; Somme
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