Memory and Modern British Politics

Commemoration, Tradition, Legacy

• Author(s): Matthew Roberts,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Pages: 296
• ISBN_10: 1350190470
  ISBN_13: 9781350190474
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901) , History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century , History / Social History , Political Science / History & Theory , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Modern / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / General ,

Description:... 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.