Locating seditious memories in England and Wales

Commemoration and Oblivion in Royalist Print Culture, 1658-1667

“…Edward Legon's study on seditious memories after 1660, for example, demonstrates ways in which official memory could be contested through records of seditious speech. 10 Indeed, Andy Wood has recently pointed out that "ordinary people might be able to deploy memory in the making of their own cultural world", but even that personal use of memory would likely be heavily influenced by prevailing ideas disseminated by the dominant regime and its ideology. 11 While there are various explanations and definitions offered for the term collective memory, for the purposes of this investigation, collective memory is understood in terms defined by Wood as the "processes of remembrance that cut across social divisions to articulate national, religious or ethnic interpretations of the past".…”

Bound up with Meaning: The Politics and Memory of Ribbon Wearing in Restoration England and Scotland

“…152 Colledge's views match those found in countless cases in which men and women justified, expressed profound nostalgia for, or identified with the English Revolution after 1660. 153 The soldiers who wore the Parliamentarian hatbands and scarves at John Masson's funeral in 1684, for instance, were reputed to have said that they "hop[ed] the difference at Court may widen and make way for them to get into the saddle once more." 154 It is conceivable, in fact, that the adoption of colors of the Parliamentarian movement on a wide scale in 1681 speaks of a more general identification with the Parliamentarian movement of the 1640s than has been hitherto acknowledged.…”