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About this book
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.
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 From Colston to canons: Memory, tradition and the political use of the past in modern Britain
- 2 A practical English past: Commemorating the Glorious Revolution in England from Tom Paine to T. B. Macaulay (1792–1848)
- 3 ‘Generation 1789’: Welsh Dissenters and radicals lost in translation
- 4 The canon of Irish republicanism: Constructing a separatist ‘tradition’
- 5 Romantic memory? Forgetting, remembering and feeling in the Chartist pantheon of heroes, c.1790–1840
- 6 ‘A new political baptism’: Memorializing the Reform Acts in 1832
- 7 Living in stone or marble: The public commemoration of Victorian MPs
- 8 Peel’s death as family tragedy: Remembering Sir Robert Peel in public and in private
- 9 ‘Whatever happened to all the heroes?’: The monumental failure of British plebeian radicalism, c.1850–1920
- 10 Making Martyrs: Contested histories and the British labour and Socialist movements’ commemoration of the Dorchester labourers
- 11 Magna Carta, memory diplomacy, and the use of the past in Anglo-American relations, c. 1915–65
- 12 Remembering British rule: The uses of colonial memory in Hong Kong protest movements, 1997–2019
- Index
- Imprint