1st Edition
Contested Sites Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the traditional ruling... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Preface, Iain McCalman; Bibliographical note; The public memorial of reform: commemoration and contestation, Paul A. Pickering and Alex Tyrrell; Bearding the Tories: the commemoration of the Scottish political martyrs of 1793-94, Alex Tyrrell with Michael T. Davis; A 'grand ossification': William Cobbett and the commemoration of Tom Paine, Paul A. Pickering; Radical banners as sites of memory: the National Banner Survey, Nicholas Mansfield; The Chartist rites of passage: commemorating Feargus O'Connor, Paul A. Pickering; Preserving the glory for Preston: the Campo Santo of the Preston Teetotalers, Alex Tyrrell; Whose history is it? Memorialising Britain's involvement in slavery, Alex Tyrrell and James Walvin; Index.
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Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell
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