Mapping Chartist Newport

Chartist landmarks

Mapping Chartist Newport

Some selected Chartist landmarks - highlighting the geography of Chartism in Newport, the industrial valleys and iron-districts of Monmouthsire and the "Hills", plus some wider South Wales connections. [Work in progress]

[1] A geography of Chartism: From Westgate Square to the Chartist Caves

v_0.1 | 10 Oct 2007

Visualization:

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[2] The signs on the street: Chartist prism

Defamiliarizing the landmark

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Walking the street - we tend to pass by everyday familiar landmarks; despite their size they dissolve from our very sight. Public statues and other forms of public art are no exception - the noble becomes a traffic island, we do not enquire into his past deeds.

Chartism - the signs on the street of a memorialized past - in public statues, memorials, plaques and other forms of public art. The signs on the street. Fragmented signs and space; or, heroic narrative and place of Chartism? Sites of memory and forgetting, sedition and freedom, power and struggle.