Alex Tyrrell: 1 book
Contested Sites
Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
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...
