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The Naming of Parts; Battlefield Naming and Memory (2024)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2024). The Naming of Parts; Battlefield Naming and Memory. In Britons and Their Battlefields: War, Memory, and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (50-80). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.003.0003

Naming a battle is not an automatic process determined simply by location, but a deliberate and often contested act. This chapter examines the naming process from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries, arguing that there are five types of batt... Read More about The Naming of Parts; Battlefield Naming and Memory.

The Aftermath of Battle (2024)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2024). The Aftermath of Battle. In Britons and Their Battlefields: War, Memory, and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (27-49). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.003.0002

Scholars typically lose interest in a battlefield as soon as the outcome is clear and the killing ends. But any army had a series of post-battle rituals which, though ignored by historians, are key to understating both the meaning of the battle for c... Read More about The Aftermath of Battle.

‘We Will Remember Them’: Battlefield Remembrance and the Cult of the Fallen since 1914 (2024)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2024). ‘We Will Remember Them’: Battlefield Remembrance and the Cult of the Fallen since 1914. In Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (242-305). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.003.0008

The First World War is argued here to be evolutionary not revolutionary in terms of conflict memory, and is viewed through the lens of the creation and practices of the Imperial (later commonwealth) War Graves Commission. Its principles, developing b... Read More about ‘We Will Remember Them’: Battlefield Remembrance and the Cult of the Fallen since 1914.

The Nineteenth-Century Invention of the Modern Battlefield (2024)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2024). The Nineteenth-Century Invention of the Modern Battlefield. In Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (186-241). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.003.0007

Many of the traits associated with the modern battlefield, its commemoration and the tourism associated with it, are first seen not (as scholars often assume) at Gettysburg (1863) in an American context or in the First World War (1914–18) in a Europe... Read More about The Nineteenth-Century Invention of the Modern Battlefield.

The Rediscovery of the Battlefield in the Eighteenth Century (2024)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2024). The Rediscovery of the Battlefield in the Eighteenth Century. In Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (153-185). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.003.0006

In the 1720s and 1730s a new series of battlefield monuments began to be erected on past battlefields such as Lansdown (1643), the Boyne (1690), and even on the presumed site of the ancient Alleluia Victory (429). The chapter argues that these were t... Read More about The Rediscovery of the Battlefield in the Eighteenth Century.

The Reformation of the Battlefield in Early Modern Britain (2024)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2024). The Reformation of the Battlefield in Early Modern Britain. In Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (106-152). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.003.0005

The Reformation meant not just ecclesiastical change but a transformation of the ways by which Protestants remembered the past. A hitherto overlooked aspect of that reformation of memory is the reformation of the battlefield. The abolition of prayers... Read More about The Reformation of the Battlefield in Early Modern Britain.

Burial and the Battlefield War Memorial in the Late Middle Ages (2024)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2024). Burial and the Battlefield War Memorial in the Late Middle Ages. In Britons and their Battlefields: War, Memory and Commemoration since the Fourteenth Century (83-105). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198912880.003.0004

At the heart of late medieval post-bellum practices was the burial of the dead, by which a battlefield became sacred ground. Commonly, the battlefield would then be marked by the erection of some form of structure such as a cross or a battlefield cha... Read More about Burial and the Battlefield War Memorial in the Late Middle Ages.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I., Blake, M., Sargent, A., & Tomkins, A. (2022). Introduction. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham

Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars (2018)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2018). Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars. In Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars (23 - 39). https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526124807.003.0002

Twentieth-century practices of battlefield preservation construct war graves as sites of memory and continuing commemoration. Such ideas, though they have led archaeologists in a largely fruitless hunt for mass graves, should not be read back into th... Read More about Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars.

Remembering (and forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields (2014)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2014). Remembering (and forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields. In England's Fortress New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax (95 - 119)

The act of horse breeding in the early modern period was generically identified as a 'Gentlemen's Recreation', and treatises on the subject of rural sport and rural management, such as Nicholas Cox's The Gentleman's Recreation, often bore that title.... Read More about Remembering (and forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields.