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Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland - From Peterloo to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland - From Peterloo to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the
'people's martyrology', raising issues of class, community,
religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through
studies of Peterloo; Tolpuddle; Featherstone; Tonypandy; Emily
Davison, fatally injured by the King's horse on Derby Day, 1913;
the 1916 Easter Rising; Jarrow, 'the town that was murdered, and
martyred in the 1930s'; David Oluwale, a Nigerian killed in Leeds
in 1965; and Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker who died in 1981.
It engages with the burgeoning historiography of memory to try to
understand why some events, such as Peterloo, Tonypandy and the
Easter Rising, have become household names whilst others, most
notably Featherstone and Oluwale, are barely known. It will appeal
to those interested in British and Irish labour history, as well as
the study of memory and memorialization.
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