Fleshing out a massacre: the storming of Shelford House and social forgetting in Restoration England

APPLEBY, DAVID

Abstract

Restoration scholars have embraced the relationship between social memory and social forgetting, although the resulting dialectic has invariably been presented as a contest between the Cavalier-Anglican establishment and the remnants of Puritanism. This article argues that the social forgetting of Shelford runs counter to this perception, revealing instead serious disunity within the pro-royalist collective, as a result of its intense anxiety regarding popular memories of foreigners and Catholics within the ranks of Charles I’s armies.

Citation

APPLEBY, D. (2020). Fleshing out a massacre: the storming of Shelford House and social forgetting in Restoration England. Historical Research, 93(260), 286-308. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaa011

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 7, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Apr 30, 2020
• Publication Date: May 30, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jun 15, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: May 1, 2022
• Journal: Historical Research
• Print ISSN: 0950-3471
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-2281
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 260
• Pages: 286-308
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaa011
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2647748
• Publisher URL: https://academic.oup.com/histres/article-abstract/93/260/286/5827207?redirectedFrom=fulltext
• Related Public URLs: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14682281
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: David J Appleby, Fleshing out a massacre: the storming of Shelford House and social forgetting in Restoration England, Historical Research, Volume 93, Issue 260, May 2020, Pages 286–308, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaa011. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions