Public history and popular memory
Issues in the commemoration of the British militant suffrage campaign
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilda Kean (Ruskin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 581-602 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020500200834 |
| OpenAlex | W4241636698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
Drawing on Raphael Samuel's work on the construction of historical knowledge, this article argues that British militant suffrage feminists had a strong sense of their role in history. Once the vote was won, militants became the first public historians of their own suffrage history by collecting ‘relics’ of the campaign and commemorating suffrage events. The work of curators, especially at the Museum of London and National Library of Australia, Canberra, also enabled wider access to the movement's ephemera. Subsequent generations have ‘remembered’ suffrage in different ways, including depiction in fiction, film, local histories and the physical landscape. An exploration of such depictions might help us start to understand the continuing fascination with this aspect of women's history
Art · Depiction · Ephemera · Historiography · Literature · Media studies · Militant · Political science · Politics · Popular history · Public history · Sociology · Suffrage · Visual arts · Women's suffrage · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philippine History and Culture · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Public Histories of Australian and British Women's Suffrage
Reflections on ‘“Men must be educated and women must do it”
Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century
It’s what the suffragettes would have wanted”
Gender, Media and Protest
Messages to the future? Lesbian subversion of official categories in the 1921 UK census
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |