Research Catalog

Title

Revolution remembered : seditious memories after the British civil wars / Edward Legon.

Author

Legon, Edward

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

ix, 235 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Following the Restoration of Charles II and the Church of England in 1660, it seemed that the people of Britain were ready to put the revolutionary period behind them. Yet despite a regime of surveillance and censorship, Parliamentarians and republicans continued to identify with the oppositional spirit of the civil war, brazenly endorsing the "good old cause." This book explores "seditious memories" in speech and writing between 1660 and 1688. It shows how they functioned as points of resistance within the Restoration's politics of memory, counteracting and even subverting efforts by Royalists to censure those who had opposed crown and established church. Historians have tended to view Parliamentarian and republican ideas as the preserve of a minority of malcontents, but legal records and government documents reveal a reservoir of sympathy among ordinary people. This sympathy was manifested both in speech and in misbehavior on the official anniversaries of the regicide and the Restoration. The book concludes by examining how seditious memories were transmitted by a generation of men and women who had experienced was and revolution to their children and grandchildren.

Series Statement

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Uniform Title

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.

Subjects

• Sedition
• Great Britain
• Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649)
• 1600-1699
• Sedition > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Great Britain > History > Restoration, 1660-1688
• Public opinion
• History
• Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Public opinion

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "remember the good old cause" -- Locating seditious memories in England and Wales -- The politics of memory after the Restoration -- Seditious memories: contestation and cultural resistance -- Sharing seditious memories -- Seditious memories in Scotland and Ireland -- Mis-commemoration after the Restoration -- Seditious memories across generations -- Conclusion: burying the good old cause -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 19-6050

ISBN

• 1526124653
• 9781526124654

OCLC

1053903135

Author

Legon, Edward, author.

Title

Revolution remembered : seditious memories after the British civil wars / Edward Legon.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781526124678

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6050