The Invention of Tradition (Canto Classics)

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• Ranger and Hobsbawm publish 'The Invention of Tradition' whole source

  ‘Traditions’ which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented.

• British royal Christmas broadcast instituted whole source

  The royal Christmas broadcast in Britain (instituted in 1932) is an example of the first

• British national anthem as the earliest of its kind whole source

  such as the national anthem (of which the British in 1740 seems to be the earliest)

• The Scottish kilt invented by Thomas Rawlinson whole source

  We may thus conclude that the kilt is a purely modern costume, first designed, and first worn, by an English Quaker industrialist

• Macpherson forges an ancient Highland literature and history whole source

  Between them, by two distinct acts of bold forgery, they created an indigenous literature for Celtic Scotland and, as a necessary support to…

• Differentiated clan tartans devised for a royal pageant whole source

  They were designed as part of a pageant devised by Sir Walter Scott in honour of a Hanoverian king; and owe their present form to two other…

• Sobieski Stuarts publish the forged Vestiarium Scoticum whole source

  It was from Eilean Aigas, in 1842, that the brothers at last published their famous manuscript, Vestiarium Scoticum.

• Iolo Morganwg invents the Gorsedd of Welsh Bards whole source

  he held a Bardic-Druidic moot in London, on Primrose Hill on 21 June 1792.

• Welsh national costume for women invented whole source

  It was not in any sense a national costume, but it was turned deliberately into a national costume for women in the 1830s as a result of the…

• Welsh national anthem "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" composed whole source

  in 1856 at Pontypridd in Glamorgan the tune and words of ‘Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau’ (‘Land of My Fathers’) were composed by Evan and James James,…

• William IV's truncated coronation, the "Half-Crownation" whole source

  Eventually, he allowed it to proceed, but it was so truncated that it became mockingly known as the ‘Half-Crownation’.

• British royal ceremonial reinvented as grand spectacle whole source

  The second, beginning in 1877, when Victoria was made empress of India, and extending until the outbreak of the First World War was, in Brit…

• British Crown assumes sovereignty over India whole source

  became ‘insiders’ by vesting in their monarch the sovereignty of India through the Government of India Act of 2 August 1858.

• Imperial Assemblage of 1877 invents feudal heraldry for India whole source

  Coordinated with the establishment of the College of Arms was a plan to present at the Imperial Assemblage ninety of the leading Indian prin…

• Colonial "customary law" invented in Africa whole source

  What were called customary law, customary land-rights, customary political structure and so on, were in fact all invented by colonial codifi…

• A Tumbuka "kingdom" invented under colonial rule whole source

  Chilongozi Gondwe was appointed as chief in 1907 and commenced a campaign to impress his royal status on the minds of the Tumbuka.

• Lozi king Lewanika attends Edward VII's coronation whole source

  The symbolic climax of Lewanika’s career came with his invitation to attend the coronation of Edward VII in 1902.

• Bastille Day invented as a French national festival whole source

  The most important of these, Bastille Day, can be exactly dated in 1880.

• May Day evolves as an international workers' festival whole source

  The major international ritual of such movements, May Day (1890), was spontaneously evolved within a surprisingly short period.

• American flag ritual spreads through US schools whole source

  the worship of the American flag, which, as a daily ritual in the country’s schools, spread from the 1880s onwards.

• Leipzig "Battle of the Nations" monument inaugurated whole source

  the centenary memorial of the battle of Leipzig, initiated in 1894 by a ‘German patriotic League for the Erection of a Monument to the Battl…

• Institution of the Tour de France whole source

  the institution of the Tour de France in 1903.