Assignment AR 6b : Annotated Bibliography

Assignment AR 6b : Annotated Bibliography 

Annotated Bibliography: Reflective Journal

The Bishop (1983) London: BBC1, Blackadder, 29^th June 1983. [Television Series]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/episodes/one/one_archbishop.shtml http://mongers.org/jokes/black_adder_one#P1E3

Blackadder (1983, 1986-89, 1999) is a comedy drama television show which originally aired on BBC One written by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, and Rowan Atkinson. It traces members of the Blackadder dynasty and their associates through different periods of history.




Dreyblatt, A. (2012) Art+Performance:Major Works [online] Berlin. Available from:

http://www.dreyblatt.de/pages/arts.php?seite=11 [Accessed on 28th Feb 2012 14:30]


Arnold Dreyblatt is a composer and artist who originally from the USA is now based in Berlin. He has produced major installations utilising computer technology to examine the power and control of Archives in society, which he calls "Memory Work". Dreyblatt creates complex textual and spatial metaphors for memory which function as a media discourse on recollection and the archive. His installations, public artworks and performances have been exhibited and staged extensively in Europe

Durrant, S. (06.05.06) Births. Marriages. Deaths. Lies. The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/may/06/familyandrelationships.family

[Accessed 10^th February 2012 at 21.15]

An article in The Guardian newspaper highlighting the current popular cultural rise in Genealogy as an all encompassing 'hobby'.

Gauntlett, D.: 2002, Media, gender and identity: An introduction, Routledge, London and New York. http://www.theoryhead.com/gender/extract.htm  [Acessed 24^th Jan 2012 19:50]

David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications, and Co-Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster.

He produces a website about media and identities, Theory.org.uk, and has pioneered the use of creative and visual research methods, for which he has created the hub at ArtLab.org.uk.

Edwards, J. (2009) Ancestor in the Machine.Centre for Research into Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) University of Manchester

A Journal on the study of Genealogy in the Northwest UK around several villages in the Lake District. 

The contemporary and burgeoning interest in genealogy and family history research in Britain has been identified as a ‘new national obsession’. Its popularity is apparent in numerous television and radio programmes devoted to both ‘ordinary’ and ‘celebrity’ family trees, as well as a plethora of internet sites, computer software, databases, magazines, self-help manuals etcetera, and all these alongside masses of information and queries uploaded and disseminated by individuals, groups and networks. ‘Family treeing’, to use an idiom from the north of England, is a social practice through which a good number of broader contemporary preoccupations are revealed. As a practice, it straddles social class, confined to neither the middle nor the working classes but it shows a burgeoning and flourishing interest in the workings of social class and in a history that ‘catches up’ place, past and person. In the north of England, It is inflected by a post-industrial landscape and recent experiences of social and economic upheaval with attendant threats to working-class life and dignity, but is as much about continuity as rupture. It reveals a preoccupation with serendipity, fate and chance which turn on the ethereal and mystical. It is also suggestive of an ‘imperative to connect’ forging kin connections to both ancestors and newly-found living relatives. This paper draws on recent fieldwork in the north of England and attempts to look ethnographically at some of the practices, materials and meanings of family history research.

Halbwachs, M., (1992) On Collective Memory, London, University of Chicago Press p.38-40

Memory reconstructs images from the past in the context of our social present. Maurice Halbwachs' important work on the formation of collective memory insists that any recalled events fundamentally exist as a function of group endeavour. These memories, and the different behaviours they sustain, rise from a selective process shaped by associations with classes, religions, and families. These social frameworks, he contends, provide the means to express memory through shared language and discourse. As such, all reconstructed pasts must draw on common conventions of beliefs and meanings. This stability accounts for the persistent strength of traditions, but also for changes to society that must first forge connections to past ways of understanding.

Horne, A.J. (2009) The Pursuit of Popular Genealogy. [online] MA Thesis Department of Anthropology. University of Calgary. Available from: http://anth.ucalgary.ca/graduate/past-theses [Accessed 16th Feb 2012 20:15]

A Thesis by a social anthropologist based on groups on individuals engaged in tracing their roots. Constructed through interviews and group meetings, its a contemporary study on the current practices.

Klein, S. B. & Nichols, S. (2010) Memory and the Sense of Personal Identity [online]

University of California, Santa Barbara, & University of Arizona. Available from: http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~snichols/Papers/MemoryandSenseofPersonalIdentity.pdf [Accessed 20th Feb 2012 19:40]

Memory for past episodes provides a sense of personal identity – the sense that I am the same person as someone in the past. The authors of this paper present a neurological case study of a patient who has accurate memories of scenes from his past, but for whom the memories lack the sense of mineness. On the basis of this case study, they propose that the sense of identity derives from two components, one delivering the content of the memory and the other generating the sense of mineness. They argue that this new model of the sense of identity has implications for debates about quasi-memory. In addition, articulating the components of the sense of identity promises to bear on the extent to which this sense of identity provides evidence of personal identity.

Mason, S. A. (2010) Nottingham Lace 1760's-1950's: Stroud: Alan Sutton Ltd. p.1-120


A detailed and specialist account of the history and development of Machine Made Lace by one of the directors of the last manufacturers of Levers Lace in the East Midlands. 

Ott, B. L. (2003) “I am Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?” A study in postmodern identity (re)construction, Journal of Popular Culture Vol.37(1), p.56–82.


Brian L. Ott (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) is Associate Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado. His main research interest concerns how media texts equip people to live their everyday lives.
This article looks at how one's identity is defined by objects of consumerist culture.

Ollick, J. K. & Robbins, J. (1998) Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices. Annual Review of Sociology 1998 New York p.105-140

Prevos, P. (2004) Cultural Identity [online].  24^th August 2004. Available from:

http://prevos.net/wp/arts/sociology/identity/ [Accessed 23^rd November 2011 at 22.10]

Online blog from Sociology student with articles relating to identity.

Schmetterling, A. (2007) Archival Obsessions: Arnold Dreyblatt’s Memory Work Art Journal London Vol. 66 No.4 p.71-83


Article critiquing Arnold Dreyblatt's Memory Work installations

Shown Mills, E., (2003) Genealogy in the “Information Age”: History’s New Frontier? National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Centennial Issue 91 p 260–277

A study of Genealogy in the current climate. Modern genealogy—appropriately done—is history in microcosm. Research projects study small slices of the past. Individuals are plucked from the nameless masses that historians paint with a broad brush. We learn their names. We follow them from birth to death. We see the actual effect upon human lives of the grand world events that historians write about—wars, economic depressions, plagues, politics, and persecutions. We see how one humble person and his or her neighbors can reshape a community, a state, or a country. Then we repeat the process, generation by generation.

Josiam, B. M. & Frazier, M. (2008) Who Am I? Where Did I Come From? Where Do I Go To Find Out?, Genealogy, The Internet and Tourism [online] TOURISMOS: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF TOURISM  Vol 3, No 2, p.35-56

Available from: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25361/1/VOLUME_3_No2_art02.pdf

[Accessed 17^th Feb 2012 19:15]

An article outlining current thinking on how Genealogy is producing a revived interest in tourism and how the tourism industry could capitalise on this.