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

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Paul A. Pickering Alex Tyrrell

Contested Sites

Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell, Michael T. Davies , Nicholas Mansfield

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Routledge
12 May 2004

Memorials, monuments; Industrial relations

Series: Studies in Labour History

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 classes to include radicals and reformers, it necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and understanding of public statuary.

Contested Sites explores the role of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols in public discourse, political monuments have received little attention from historians.

This is to be regretted, for commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender and power relations that determine what is remembered (or forgotten)'.

Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the relations that went into the making of public memory in modern Britain and its radical tradition.

By: Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell
Edited by: Michael T. Davies, Nicholas Mansfield, James Walvin (University of York, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754632290
ISBN 10: 0754632296
Series: Studies in Labour History
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 12 May 2004
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell