Memory and Modern British Politics

Matthew Roberts is Reader in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is a historian of 19th-century Britain.

1. From Colston to Canons: Memory, Tradition and the Political Use of the Past in Modern Britain, Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
2. A Practical English Past: Commemorating the Glorious Revolution in England, from Tom Paine to T. B. Macaulay (1792-1848), Rémy Duthille (Bordeaux Montaigne University, France)
3. ‘Generation 1789’: Welsh Dissenters and Radicals Lost in Translation, Marion Löffler (Cardiff University, UK)
4. The Canon of Irish Republicanism: Constructing a Separatist ‘Tradition’, Colin Reid (University of Sheffield, UK)
5. Romantic Memory? Forgetting, Remembering and Feeling in the Chartist Pantheon of Heroes, c.1790-1840 Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
6. ‘A New Political Baptism’: Memorializing the Reform Acts in 1832, Gordon Pentland (University of Edinburgh, UK)
7. Living in Stone or Marble: The Public Commemoration of Victorian MPs, Kathryn Rix (Assistant Editor, History of Parliament, UK)
8. Peel’s Death as Family Tragedy, Richard Gaunt (University of Nottingham, UK)
9. Whatever Happened to all the Heroes? The Monumental Failure of British Plebeian Radicalism, c.1850-1920, Antony Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
10. Making Martyrs: Contested Histories and the British Labour and Socialist Movements’ Commemoration of the Dorchester Labourers, Marcus Morris (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
11. Magna Carta, Memory Diplomacy, and the Use of the Past in Anglo-American Relations, c. 1915-1965, Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
12. Remembering British Rule: the Uses of Colonial Memory in Hong Kong Protest Movements, 1997-2019, Mark Hampton (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) and Florence Mok (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)