Claiming the Streets
Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales c. 1830-1880
Distributed for University of Wales Press
241 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
In Wales during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries an enormous number of public processions were held by benefit societies. This dense network of organizations paraded the streets during festivals and bank holidays to demonstrate their respectability, orderliness, and sobriety. Claiming the Streets examines these processions, and in doing so, provides an invaluable key to unlock the secrets of the urban culture during this period.
Louise Miskell, Swansea University
“This volume is the first major investigation of processional activity in urban south Wales. It brings to light material that will be new to readers and it offers a refreshing and sometimes challenging new perspective on working-class culture in nineteenth-century south Wales. This book will no doubt become an important reference point, both for urban historians and for readers interested in modern Wales.”
Bill Jones, Cardiff University
“Paul of Leary’s Claiming the Streets is a glorious read, a magnificent scholarly achievement, and a stunning new contribution to urban history and our understanding of urban cultures and public space in the nineteenth century. Drawing on an impressively rich range of primary material, O’Leary explores the changing nature of civic ceremonials between 1830 and 1880, and the variety of responses to them, with admirable perception and sensitivity to continuities and changes. This innovative and richly nuanced study will be essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of nineteenth century processions and their interactions with urban space and urban development.”
Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Introduction
1. Street Processions and Ritual in the Victorian Town
2. Town and Region: the Urban Context
3. Protest, Processions and Stability
4. Ordering the Streets: Friendly Society Processions
5. Sobering the Streets: Temperance and Teetotal Processions
6. Sacralising the Streets: Religion and Urban Space
7. Diversity on the Streets: Corpus Christi and the Salvation Army in the 1870s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Introduction
1. Street Processions and Ritual in the Victorian Town
2. Town and Region: the Urban Context
3. Protest, Processions and Stability
4. Ordering the Streets: Friendly Society Processions
5. Sobering the Streets: Temperance and Teetotal Processions
6. Sacralising the Streets: Religion and Urban Space
7. Diversity on the Streets: Corpus Christi and the Salvation Army in the 1870s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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