History, Commemoration, and National Preoccupation: Trafalgar 1805-2005
(Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007). 140 pp.
- First volume to cover the Nelson legend to the present, including commemoration events in 2005
- comparison with French commemorations of Trafalgar and Napoleon
- Leading historians of Britain and France, including Professors M. Connelly (Kent), M. Daunton FBA (Cambridge), L. Jordanova (King’s College, London), J. Mackenzie (Prof. Emeritus), B. Taithe (Manchester)
This volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson’s death over the past two centuries. It includes the extraordinary celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events celebrating and commemorating the bicentenary of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson.
Reviews
…provides ‘a wealth of insights into and concrete examples “at the coal face” of the complexity of the subject …, a rich exploration of undeniable interest to both the historian (or historiographer) and museologist’ – H-Albion
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Dr Holger Hoock
Holger Hoock grew up near Heidelberg in Germany. For the past decade he has lived in the United Kingdom. He studied History, Politics, and Law in Freiburg, Germany, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and holds a Doctorate in Modern History from Oxford. From 2002 to 2005, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is currently the Reader (Associate Professor) in British History and the Founding Director of the Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. My Books
