Remembering independence, and forgetting the anti-colonial struggle?

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Notes

1 Dai Smith, Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1993, p 92 f.

2 Hayden White, The Practical Past, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014.

3 Stefan Berger, The Past as History: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Modern Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, p 116 f.

4 Pierre Nora, Les Lieux de Mémoire, 7 vols, Paris: Gallimard, 1984–94.

5 See also Ann Rigney, ‘Plenitude, Scarcity and the Circulation of Cultural Memory’, Journal of European Studies 35(1), 2005, pp 11–28.