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Zusatztext '... Tyrell's solid and important volume should inspire further work in this compelling field.' Journal of British Studies Informationen zum Autor Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The main authors of this study were initially interested in writing the text because they believed that historians of British reform movements had devoted insufficient attention to monuments. They regarded this as a weakness in the writing of modern British history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
