Contested Sites: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Pickering,Paul A.

• ISBN13: 9780754632290
• ISBN10: 0754632296
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351948975
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Examining monuments, including statues, plaques and tombstones, commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming individuals, Contested Sites reveals the relations that went into the making of public memory in modern Britain and its radical tradition. Despite recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols in public discourse, these political monuments have received scant attention from historians of British radical reform.

Table of Contents

Studies in Labour History General Editor's Preface	vii
List of Figures	viii
Foreword	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
Preface by Lain McCalman	xi
Bibliographical Note	xvi
1 The Public Memorial of Reform: Commemoration and Contestation	1	(24)
Paul A. Pickering and Alex Tyrrell
2 Bearding the Tories: The Commemoration of the Scottish Political Martyrs of 1793-94	25	(32)
Alex Tyrrell with Michael T. Davis
3 A 'Grand Ossification': William Cobbett and the Commemoration of Tom Paine	57	(24)
Paul A. Pickering
4 Radical Banners as Sites of Memory: The National Banner Survey	81	(20)
Nicholas Mansfield
5 The Chartist Rites of Passage: Commemorating Feargus O'Connor	101	(26)
Paul A. Pickering
6 Preserving the Glory for Preston: The Campo Santo of the Preston Teetotalers	127	(20)
Alex Tyrrell
7 Whose History Is It? Memorialising Britain's Involvement in Slavery	147	(24)
Alex Tyrrell and James Walvin
Index	171