Did We Always Celebrate Historical Anniversaries So Much Before The Year 2000 ?
St. Anthony
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Currently having a three day celebration of 70th anniversary of VE day on BBC.
I don't mind it at all, but do feel that such things weren't "celebrated" SO much before the year 2000, and more so in recent years.
The Beeb always seem to be building up to some big historical / cultural anniversary or other these days.
In the eighties all I really remember was the "Twenty Years Since Sergeant Pepper / summer of love", don't remember any big memorials for wars, etc.
I don't mind it at all, but do feel that such things weren't "celebrated" SO much before the year 2000, and more so in recent years.
The Beeb always seem to be building up to some big historical / cultural anniversary or other these days.
In the eighties all I really remember was the "Twenty Years Since Sergeant Pepper / summer of love", don't remember any big memorials for wars, etc.
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I was going to mention that as being the only really big historical one that I can remember pre 2000.
I can just about remember it, was five at the time.
And now it's every other week. It's boring
Presumably he means the end of the Cold War. Not sure many see it that way though.
As WW2 ended in 1945, the 25th anniversary would have been in 1970.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe which is currently being
celebrated.
Next will be VJ Day when Japan surrendered, marking the overall end
Let's not forget the ' forgotten 14th' who suffered extremes of torture we could not imagine, and which Japan has never apologised for.
After Germany surrendered Britain maintained a position of war with Germany. When Germany was partitioned in 1949 all of Germany's affairs should have been tied up but they weren't. When Germany was reunified in 1990 technically Britain was at War with Germany again. The treaties that formally ended World War two were not ratified until March 1991.
On 15 March 1991 the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany came into effect, having been agreed in 1990 by the Allies and the two Germanies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany
They say you learn something new every day!😺
My Dad was in the Forgotten 14th. It certainly was a hellish place to be.
The far east had to be the worst campaign of the war.
It all feels rather distant now at 70 years
I expect a big commemoration on 1 July 2016, the hundredth anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.
On the contrary - Jingoism was in short supply on todays parade with such a small contingent of Army Navy and Airforce on the march. with one Military band and a pipe band. As for the RAF flypast - hardly enough a/c to make up a flying club.
Agreed.
WW2 feels like a historical event now. Also a chance to honour some very old soldiers.
That was the 50th anniversary in 1995 when there were actually bigger celebrations than for the 70th now, largely I would think as there were so many more veterans alive