Memory and Modern British Politics
Memory and Modern British Politics

Author: Matthew Roberts

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-12-14

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1350190470

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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.

The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics
The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics

Author: Philip J. Brendese

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1580464238

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Offers an examination of ancient, modern, and contemporary political theories and practices in order to develop a more expansive way of conceptualizing memory, how political power influences the presence of the past, and memory'songoing impact on democratic horizons.

Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500
Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500

Author: Carl J. Griffin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 3319742434

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This book offers the first systematic study of the multiple and contested ways in which protest is remembered. Drawing on work in social and cultural history, cultural and historical geography, psychology, anthropology, critical heritage studies, and memory studies, Remembering Protest focuses on the dynamic and lived nature of past protests, asking how conflicted communities and individuals made sense of and mobilized protest past in forging the future. Written by several of the leading historians and historical geographers of protest in early modern and modern Britain, the chapters span the period from 1500 to c.1850 while also speaking to the politics of past protests in the present. In so doing, it also offers the first showcase of the variety of approaches that comprises the vibrant and intellectually fecund ‘new protest history’. Empirically rich but conceptually sophisticated, this book will appeal to those with an interest in protest history, and early modern and modern British history, and historical geography more generally.

History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics
History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics

Author: Emily Robinson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2012-06-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780719086311

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History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics explores the use of the past in modern British politics. It examines party political perspectives on British history and the historical process and also looks at the ways in which memory is instituted within the parties in practice, through archives, written histories, and commemorations. It focuses in particular on a number of explicit negotiations over historical narratives: the creation of the National Curriculum for History, Conservative attempts to re-assess their historical role in 1997, the assertion of a "lost" social democratic tradition by the SDP and New Labour and the collapse of the Communist Party of Great Britain’s narrative memory in 1988-91. This book shows how history, heritage, and tradition are used to present parliamentary politics as intrinsically "historic" and suggests that the disappearance of active political pasts leaves contemporary politicians unable to speak of radically different futures.

British Cultural Memory and the Second World War
British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Author: Lucy Noakes

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1441104976

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Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.

Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658-1727
Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658-1727

Author: Edward Vallance

Publisher: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Published: 2019-04-29

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780719097034

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This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere'. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national 'mood'. Covering addressing campaigns from the late-Cromwellian to the early Georgian period, the book explores the production, presentation, subscription and publication of these texts. It argues that beneath partisan attacks on the credibility of loyal addresses lay a broad consensus about the validity of this political practice. Ultimately, loyal addresses acknowledged the existence of a 'political public' but did so in a way which fundamentally conceded the legitimacy of the social and political hierarchy. They constituted a political form perfectly suited to a fundamentally unequal society in which political life continued to be centered on the monarchy.

History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction
History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction

Author: Beata Piątek

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788323338246

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History, memory and trauma as well as their complex interrelations have been lying at the centre of interdisciplinary academic debates since the end of the previous century. These are also themes with which contemporary writers and other artists are increasingly preoccupied in their work. History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction is an attempt at analysing the relationship between history, memory and trauma in the selected novels of Pat Barker, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro and John Banville. The author examines the notion of memory in a variety of contexts: collective memory in the historical novels of Barker and Barry, individual memory as a foundation of the sense of self in the novels of Banville and Ishiguro, and traumatic memory in the novels of Barry and Ishiguro. By applying the theoretical framework of trauma studies to the work of those renowned writers, History, Memory, Trauma offers new interpretations of their novels. The author demonstrates that contemporary fiction moves beyond mere representation of trauma and engages the reader in the role of co-witness who enables the process of working through trauma.

History and Memory in Modern Ireland
History and Memory in Modern Ireland

Author: Ian McBride

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-11-08

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521793667

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A 2001 volume of essays about the relationship between past and present in Irish society.

Politics of the Past
Politics of the Past

Author: David Cowan

Publisher:

Published: 2024-04-03

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1009340328

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The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period - between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub - shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stories about the inter-war period offered ordinary people an accessible way of engaging in politics. Drawing on six local case studies across Scotland and England, this book explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.