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‘A chronology of some memorable accidents’ : the representation of the recent past in English almanacs, 1648–60
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Peck, Imogen (2019) ‘A chronology of some memorable accidents’ : the representation of the recent past in English almanacs, 1648–60. Historical Research, 92 (255). pp. 97-117. doi:10.1111/1468-2281.12256 ISSN 0950-3471.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12256
Abstract
This article explores the ways the political upheavals of the mid seventeenth century were represented in English almanacs, and argues that study of this much overlooked printed product illuminates several facets of the mental afterlife of Britain’s domestic conflicts. It contends that the prominence of political and military events from the sixteen‐forties and‐fifties within almanacs shows a popular demand for material that helped people remember the events of the bloody recent past and that these recollections served a range of purposes, from prognostic input to aide memoire. In addition, it suggests that the language in which the recent past was presented – primarily by almanac compilers but also by their readers – is revealing of the ways these events were interpreted and memorialized, and of some of the contests over recent memory that operated in mid seventeenth‐century England.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Almanacs -- History -- 17th century, England -- History -- 17th century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Historical Research | ||||||||
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0950-3471 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 92 | ||||||||
Number: | 255 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 97-117 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2281.12256 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 September 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 October 2019 | ||||||||
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