This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new,…mehr
This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.
Matthew Roberts is Reader in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is a historian of 19th-century Britain.
Inhaltsangabe
1. From Colston to Canons: Memory Tradition and the Political Use of the Past in Modern Britain Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University UK) 2. A Practical English Past: Commemorating the Glorious Revolution in England from Tom Paine to T. B. Macaulay (1792-1848) Rémy Duthille (Bordeaux Montaigne University France) 3. 'Generation 1789': Welsh Dissenters and Radicals Lost in Translation Marion Löffler (Cardiff University UK) 4. The Canon of Irish Republicanism: Constructing a Separatist 'Tradition' Colin Reid (University of Sheffield UK) 5. Romantic Memory? Forgetting Remembering and Feeling in the Chartist Pantheon of Heroes c.1790-1840 Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University UK) 6. 'A New Political Baptism': Memorializing the Reform Acts in 1832 Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh UK) 7. Living in Stone or Marble: The Public Commemoration of Victorian MPs Kathryn Rix (Assistant Editor History of Parliament UK) 8. Peel's Death as Family Tragedy Richard Gaunt (University of Nottingham UK) 9. Whatever Happened to all the Heroes? The Monumental Failure of British Plebeian Radicalism c.1850-1920 Antony Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University UK) 10. Making Martyrs: Contested Histories and the British Labour and Socialist Movements' Commemoration of the Dorchester Labourers Marcus Morris (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 11. Magna Carta Memory Diplomacy and the Use of the Past in Anglo-American Relations c. 1915-1965 Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 12. Remembering British Rule: the Uses of Colonial Memory in Hong Kong Protest Movements 1997-2019 Mark Hampton (Lingnan University Hong Kong) and Florence Mok (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
1. From Colston to Canons: Memory Tradition and the Political Use of the Past in Modern Britain Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University UK) 2. A Practical English Past: Commemorating the Glorious Revolution in England from Tom Paine to T. B. Macaulay (1792-1848) Rémy Duthille (Bordeaux Montaigne University France) 3. 'Generation 1789': Welsh Dissenters and Radicals Lost in Translation Marion Löffler (Cardiff University UK) 4. The Canon of Irish Republicanism: Constructing a Separatist 'Tradition' Colin Reid (University of Sheffield UK) 5. Romantic Memory? Forgetting Remembering and Feeling in the Chartist Pantheon of Heroes c.1790-1840 Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University UK) 6. 'A New Political Baptism': Memorializing the Reform Acts in 1832 Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh UK) 7. Living in Stone or Marble: The Public Commemoration of Victorian MPs Kathryn Rix (Assistant Editor History of Parliament UK) 8. Peel's Death as Family Tragedy Richard Gaunt (University of Nottingham UK) 9. Whatever Happened to all the Heroes? The Monumental Failure of British Plebeian Radicalism c.1850-1920 Antony Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University UK) 10. Making Martyrs: Contested Histories and the British Labour and Socialist Movements' Commemoration of the Dorchester Labourers Marcus Morris (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 11. Magna Carta Memory Diplomacy and the Use of the Past in Anglo-American Relations c. 1915-1965 Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) 12. Remembering British Rule: the Uses of Colonial Memory in Hong Kong Protest Movements 1997-2019 Mark Hampton (Lingnan University Hong Kong) and Florence Mok (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
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