british cultural history
british history
british political history
british politics
british social history
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commemoration
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history of politics
legacy
memory
modern british history
modern history
political history
social history
tradition
Product details
- ISBN 9781350190719
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 152 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Matthew Roberts is Reader in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is a historian of 19th-century Britain.
