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TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND THE NARRATION OF BRITISHNE...

London's Trafalgar Square is one of the world's best known public places  and during its
relatively short history has seen violent protest  imperial and royal spectacle and wild
national celebration. This book draws together scholarship on national identity  cultural
geography  and the histories of Britain and London to ask what role the Square has played in
narrating British national identity through its many uses. The author focuses on a series of
examples to draw out her arguments  ranging from the Suffragettes' use of the site in the early
twentieth century to the Fourth Plinth contemporary art scheme in the early twenty-first. The
book explores how different users of the Square have understood national identity  and how the
site itself has shaped this narrative through its built elements and history of use. Ultimately
Trafalgar Square and the Narration of Britishness  1900-2012 uses the Square to explore the
processes by which urban public place can help to construct  maintain or transform national
identity.

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