‘His dirge our groans—his monument our praise’: Official and Popular Commemoration of Nelson in 1805–6

White, Colin

doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197264065.003.0003

History, Commemoration and National Preoccupation 2007

DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264065.003.0003

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‘His dirge our groans—his monument our praise’: Official and Popular Commemoration of Nelson in 1805–6

Colin White¹

Abstract: This chapter asks what the heroification of Nelson immediately after his death entailed. What conflicting images were created, in text and visual media, perhaps continuing the ways in which Nelson himself had manipulated his image during his lifetime? Contrasting official with popular commemoration, and exploring their interaction, it presents a nuanced picture of ‘national’ commemorations.

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“…10 As well, it is more than likely that during his time in England Richardson became aware of the statutes, paintings, and services that memorialized Britain's defeat of France in 1815. 11 Thus, in his desire to provide a narrative of the events of 1812-1813, Richardson participated in colonial, transatlantic, and imperial dialogues about the effects of the Na poleonic Wars, his participation mediated by a focus on the War's specific and local ef fect.…”

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Remembering 1812 in the 1840s: John Richardson and the Writing of the War

Morgan¹

2014

London Journal of Canadian Studies

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Soldier, traveller, writer, and journalist John Richardson’s 1840 history of the War of 1812, along with his novel, The Canadian Brothers, also published in 1840, were some of the first written efforts by Upper Canadians to craft histories of the conflict. Richardson drew heavily on his own experiences as a young soldier during this time, mixing autobi ography and documentary sources to craft his history; he also drew on his childhood in the Windsor-Detroit area for his novel. His work drew attention to the conflict in the southwestern area of the colony, a region at times overlooked in the War’s public memory in favour of the Niagara peninsula. Richardson’s accounts of the War of 1812 are notable for a number of reasons. Richardson himself was a highly mobile figure in the imperial and transatlantic world of the British military: his writings are part of the context of broader discussions of the Napoleonic Wars. Equally importantly, Richardson’s work highlights the effects of war on men’s bodies and their deployment in wartime struggle. His history and novel tell us much about discourses of masculinity in wartime, both European and Indigenous.

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Remembering 1812 in the 1840s: John Richardson and the Writing of the War

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On Things from Sea and Shore: British Naval Heroism in Material Culture

Zimmermann

2019

Open Cultural Studies

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This article examines social participation and the dissemination of cultural knowledge through artefacts, and analyses how unspectacular and mundane everyday objects manage to convey ideas of the exceptional and heroic, as, for example, in the case of Admiral Lord Nelson and the souvenir culture surrounding him and his victories. Over the course of the eighteenth century, the British Empire expanded and consolidated its global influence, relying heavily on the British Navy in the process. Public interest in the Navy—and in its prominent figures—increased and was also consciously promoted, and, as a consequence, elements of maritime culture were taken up and adapted in everyday culture. Nautically inspired artefacts became the fashion, and the new opportunities for mass production contributed to their proliferation. Thus, admiration for a naval hero found its expression in a multitude of artefacts which, taken by themselves, have nothing of the heroic about them but taken en masse demonstrate the significance of naval prowess in this period, and the forging of connections between the domestic to the foreign sphere.

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‘His dirge our groans—his monument our praise’: Official and Popular Commemoration of Nelson in 1805–6

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Remembering 1812 in the 1840s: John Richardson and the Writing of the War

Remembering 1812 in the 1840s: John Richardson and the Writing of the War

On Things from Sea and Shore: British Naval Heroism in Material Culture

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