SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Following the donation of a rare collection of policing documents from World War I, Bishop's Stortford Museum displayed these remarkable accounts in a temporary exhibition entitled 'On the Beat: The Great War 1914-1918.'2 Within this article I aim to theorise the problematic aspects of museum exhibition design and the construction of meaning within the context of exhibiting historical policing archives. This will be achieved by addressing specific elements within the gallery space, including the use of colour, atmosphere and emotion as well as the primary communicative approach of employing graphic novels and comic strips. I endeavour to illustrate that using a thoughtful, targeted and multimodal exhibitionary complex is a highly successful means of disseminating policing history to a broad audience.
Publication Date
2015-01-01
Publication Title
SOLON Law, Crime and History
Volume
5
Issue
1
First Page
117
Last Page
129
ISSN
2045-9238
Deposit Date
April 2017
Embargo Period
2024-10-22
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Knight, Dorian
(2015)
"On the Beat: Stories from 1914-1918: A Fresh Approach to interpreting Crime History at Bishop's Stortford Museum,"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol5/iss1/3
