Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times
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From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts?
Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.
Patrick Joyce
Patrick Joyce is Emeritus Professor of History at University of Manchester. He is a leading British social historian and has long been a radical and influential voice in debates on the politics and future of social and cultural history. Joyce has written and edited numerous books of social and political history, including The Rule of Freedom, Visions of the People, and The State of Freedom. He is also the author of the memoir Going to My Father’s House, a meditation on the complex questions of immigration, home, and nation. The son of Irish immigrants, Joyce was raised in London and resides beside the Peak District in England.
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