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Written for both a general and academic audience, this full-length
biography of Feargus O'Connor (1795-1855) provides an overview of a
turbulent and active political career, from positions in journalism
and the House of Commons to mass demonstrations for the People's
Charter and working for the Chartist Land company. At the height of
his popularity as a leader of the Chartists' campaign for
democratic reform, O'Connor enjoyed the support of millions of
working people. But more than any other popular leader of his
generation, he sought to bring the "working Saxon and Celt"
together in a common struggle, an aspiration that had its roots
deep in the Irish past. Uniquely, this account restores the Irish
dimension of O'Connor's career to its proper place by offering, for
the first time, an evaluation of his heritage, his ideas, and his
public life on both sides of the Irish Sea.
In 1988, Iain McCalman's seminal work, The Radical Underworld,
unravelled the complex and clandestine revolutionary networks of
democrats that operated in London between 1790 and the beginnings
of Chartism, to reveal an urban underworld of prophets, infidels,
pornographers and rogue preachers where powerful satirical and
subversive subcultures were developed. This present volume reflects
and builds upon the diversity of McCalman's discoveries, to present
fresh insights into the culture and operation of popular politics
in the 'age of reform'. It is a coherent and integrated treatment
of the subject that offers a window into this 'unrespectable'
underworld and questions, whether it was a blackguard subculture or
a more complex and rich counter-culture with powerful literary,
legal and political implications.This book brings together an
international team of experienced scholars to explore the concepts
and subjects pioneered by McCalman. The volume presents a focused
and coherent review of popular politics, from the meeting rooms of
a reform society and the theatre stage, to the forum of the
courtroom and the depths of prison.
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new
phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in
former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for
'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was
emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the
subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the
traditional ruling classes to include radicals and reformers, it
necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and
understanding of public statuary. Contested Sites explores the role
of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite
recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols
in public discourse, political monuments have received little
attention from historians. This is to be regretted, for
commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that
have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender
and power relations that determine what is remembered (or
forgotten)'. Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones
commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming
individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the
relations that went into the making of public memory in modern
Britain and its radical tradition.
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new
phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in
former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for
'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was
emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the
subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the
traditional ruling classes to include radicals and reformers, it
necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and
understanding of public statuary. Contested Sites explores the role
of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite
recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols
in public discourse, political monuments have received little
attention from historians. This is to be regretted, for
commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that
have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender
and power relations that determine what is remembered (or
forgotten)'. Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones
commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming
individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the
relations that went into the making of public memory in modern
Britain and its radical tradition.
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty
resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and
reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book
explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture
over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly
travelling activists - women and men - it brings to light the
importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It
shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded,
inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs;
the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching,
electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking,
rioting and rebelling; and it listens within the walls of a range
of associations where it was a part of a way of life, inspiring,
nurturing, though at times restrictive. It provides an opportunity
to hear history as it happened. -- .
Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty
resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and
reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book
explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture
over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly
travelling activists - women and men - it brings to light the
importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It
shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded,
inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs;
the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching,
electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking,
rioting and rebelling; and it listens within the walls of a range
of associations where it was a part of a way of life, inspiring,
nurturing, though at times restrictive. It provides an opportunity
to hear history as it happened. -- .
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