London s Trafalgar Square is one of the world s best known public places, and during its relatively short history has seen violent protest, imperial and royal spectacle and wild national celebration. This book draws together scholarship on national identity, cultural geography, and the histories of Britain and London to ask what role the Square has played in narrating British national identity through its many uses. The author focuses on a series of examples to draw out her arguments, ranging from the Suffragettes use of the site in the early twentieth century to the Fourth Plinth...

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention.