Memory, Heritage, and Preservation in 20th-Century England: Preserving Battlefields, Political Sites, and World’s Fairgrounds (Britain and the World)

Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations
1 Introduction
	Notes
2 The Hastings Battlefield
	Religion & Residence
	A Day Trip Destination
	Memorializing 1066
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 The Bosworth Battlefield
	Battle Remnants
	The Push for Stewardship
	Local Memory & Public Revival
	Memory Production
	Authenticity & the Hastings Link
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 Runnymede
	Rhetorical Remembrance
	A Botched Sale
	Interwar Commemorations
	Anglo-American Associations
	Magna Carta Tourism
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 The Peterloo Massacre Site
	Positioning Peterloo in the Lexicon
	Reformers’ Memory of Peterloo
	Narrowing the Rhetoric: The Right of Public Assembly26
	‘Labourloo’: The Peterloo Centenary of 1919
	Mapping a Lost Heritage Site
	A Memorial Campaign
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 The Crystal Palace
	The Life of the Crystal Palaces (1851, 1854–1936)
	Mourning a Loss
	Moving Forward
	The Trustees Act
	War: Reconstruction Interregnum
	Postwar Efforts
	Conclusion
	Notes
7 The Great White City
	The White City at War
	Fairs and False Starts
	Housing at the White City
	Conclusion
	Notes
8 Conclusion: Making the Past Present
Bibliography