Titlebook: Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland; From Peterloo to the Quentin Outram,Keith Laybourn Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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Emily Davison: Dying for the Vote,om was not so much her death, as her life of steadfast, intentional devotion to the cause of woman suffrage for which she endured prison and forcible feeding, as well as a willing, if painful, sacrifice of reputation, love and family life. Her writing shows that she offered up her suffering for a no

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,: Martyrs, Heroes and the Urbicide of Jarrow,wn evolved in her political rhetoric and journalism. This notion emerged in a context where capitalist modernity seemed to threaten urban civilisation via two routes: economic crisis and aerial bombardment. Wilkinson sought to assign responsibility for the murder of the town that she represented in

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Bobby Sands, Martyrdom and the Politics of Irish Republican Memory, the 1981 hunger strike, Bobby Sands. The remembrance of Sands is no longer pristine or uncomplicated, as some ex-Provisionals have challenged the leadership’s ‘master narrative’ of the strike. The chapter examines the evolution of Irish republican attitudes to self-sacrifice or martyrdom, and argue

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The Featherstone Massacre and Its Forgotten Martyrs,emented by the commemorations of 1993, when memories of the 1984–1985 miners’ strike were still raw. These commemorations made the dead into martyrs but as subjects of a ‘cult’ that has become parochial and has been forgotten by the wider world.

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Bobby Sands, Martyrdom and the Politics of Irish Republican Memory,ike, and the third section is devoted to the legacies and memories of Bobby Sands, understood as an exemplary and iconic ‘martyr’. The conclusion addresses the contemporary dispute within republicanism regarding this legacy.

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