A01=Alex Tyrrell
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Alex Tyrrell
Author_Alex Tyrrell
Author_Paul A. Pickering
British Black History
Calton Hill
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Chartist Banners
class and gender relations
Coroner's Court
Coroner’s Court
Drawn Back
East London Democratic Association
English Chartist Circular
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Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
George IV's Coronation
George IV’s Coronation
historical symbolism analysis
James Walvin
Joseph Sturge
Kensal Green
Kensal Green Cemetery
Late Victorian Socialist
London Monument
Michael T. Davis
Monument Committee
Nicholas Mansfield
nineteenth-century British memorialisation
Nunhead Cemetery
People's History Museum
People’s History Museum
public memory studies
radical political history
Red Field
Reform Banner
Royal High School
Scottish Martyrs
social reform commemoration
Teetotal Movement
Union Flag
Victorian era monuments
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754632290
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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.
Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell
