The Queen’s Loyal ‘Others’ –the Metropolitan Jewish and Catholic Hierarchies, the Communal Press and the Diamond Jubilee of 1897
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22891900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Renshaw (0000-0001-7311-5018, University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 184-204 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Immigrants & Minorities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-9288 • E-ISSN: 1744-0521 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02619288.2020.1855422 |
| OpenAlex | W3113223950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines the Jewish and Catholic experience of acceptance, rejection and discrimination in late nineteenth-century Britain through the lens of the celebrations of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in the summer of 1897. Arguing that the Anglo-Jewish and English Catholic hierarchical discourses created at the time of the Jubilee reveal the continuing profound insecurities felt by the minority leaderships, the article will dissect the various ‘stories’ created around the events of the Jubilee, particularly in London. It will consider in turn how narratives were created stressing Victoria’s personal role of liberator; how a premium was placed by the hierarchies on the different demographic strands of the minority communities behaving in aropriate ‘English’ class roles; and how this narrative was complicated – first by Irish nationalism and migrant Jewish radicalism, and secondly by the prejudices of the wider British establishment. Ultimately it will contend that the events of the Jubilee revealed a continued exclusion of Jewish and Catholic groups from the British ruling class, and that anti-Catholic sectarianism and antisemitism was not solely a matter of economic discrimination and physical violence against working-class communities, but also subtler forms of prejudice against more prosperous Jews and Catholics.
Art · Irish · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term) · Queen (butterfly) · Sectarianism · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Scottish History and National Identity
The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750–1939
Englishmen and Jews
The Age of Empire
Anti-Semitism in British Society, 1876-1939
Propaganda and Empire
Jewish Immigrants in London, 1880–1939
Hilaire belloc and the ‘Marconi scandal’ 1900–1914
The Destitute Alien in Great Britain
Conflict and Consensus on a Ceremonial Occasion
Nationalist responses to two royal visits to Ireland, 1900 and 1903
Sectarian Violence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |