All England Was Present at that Siege
Imperial Defences and Island Stories in British Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4775917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Wallace (0000-0002-5282-6758, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-185 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbac005 |
| OpenAlex | W4211242362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In 2018, a controversy over the commemoration of Rorke's Drift in a London Tube station demonstrated the tensions inherent in twenty-first-century imperial memory. This article traces how imperial sieges like Rorke's Drift, Lucknow, and Mafeking played a central role in shaping Victorian Britain's imperial self-image, with besieged garrisons celebrated as microcosms of their island homeland in a patriotic vision deployed to justify and popularize often-controversial imperial wars. Drawing on sources including diaries, journalism, art, theatre, and political rhetoric, it demonstrates how these racially-charged siege narratives still shape nostalgic postcolonial visions of empire through popular culture like the 1964 film Zulu
Ancient history · Art · Empire · Homeland · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Siege · Sociology · Vision · Zulu · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |