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SUMMARY:Nelson the Hero and British Masculinities 200 Years On - Brigid Wa
 rd (Murray Edwards)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of how the memory of Nelson was first observed\, re
 corded\, read\, constructed\, reconstructed and reinforced is a task open 
 to any historian of nineteenth-century Britain – indeed\, there have rec
 ently been many such studies\, prompted by the 2005 Bicentennial of the Ba
 ttle of Trafalgar. However\, it is often overlooked that the collective me
 mory of Nelson continues to be built in the twenty-first century. His imag
 e has now\, in a process spanning the last two centuries\, been essentiali
 sed\, extrapolated\, and used in a wide variety of ways to navigate mascul
 inity by both genders. Nelson has now become the ultimate symbol for a _va
 riety_ of white British masculinities. Modern\, unmediated representations
  of Nelson on the Internet\, finding their roots in nineteenth century rep
 resentations\, have taken the original meanings and reframed them\, emphas
 ising different significant aspects of each. The result of this is that Ne
 lson becomes a _lieu de mémoire_\, a site of memory for a consistently la
 rge number of people\, but in different capacities\, with different emphas
 is\; the image and the memory of Nelson\, already accessed at multiple sit
 es in time and space\, has now been exponentially expanded.
LOCATION:Graduate Union Lounge\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge
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