This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the 'people's martyrology', raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of Peterloo; Tolpuddle; Featherstone; Tonypandy; Emily Davison, fatally injured by the King's horse on Derby Day, 1913; the 1916 Easter Rising; Jarrow, 'the town that was murdered, and martyred in the 1930s'; David Oluwale, a Nigerian killed in Leeds in 1965; and Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981. It engages with the burgeoning historiography of memory to try to understand why some events, such as Peterloo, Tonypandy and the Easter Rising, have become household names whilst others, most notably Featherstone and Oluwale, are barely known. It will appeal to those interested in British and Irish labour history, as well as the study of memory and memorialization.

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1. ‘A Divine Discontent with Wrong’: The People’s Martyrology
2. The Making of the Peterloo Martyrs, 1819 to the Present
3. From ‘Dorchester Labourers’ to ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’: Celebrating Radicalism in the English Countryside
4. The Featherstone Massacre and Its Forgotten Martyrs
5. Tonypandy 1910: The Foundations of Welsh Social Democracy
6. Emily Davison: Dying for the Vote
7. Making Irish Martyrs: The Impact and Legacy of the Execution of the Leaders of the Easter Rising, 1916
8. The Town that Was Murdered: Martyrs, Heroes and the Urbicide of Jarrow
9. David Oluwale: Making His Memory and Debating His Martyrdom
10. Bobby Sands, Martyrdom and the Politics of Irish Republican Memory
11. ‘The People’s Flag Is Deepest Red, It Shrouded Oft Our Martyred Dead’: Martyrdom and the People’s History
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