Commemorating the Seafarer – Monuments, Memorials and Memory Tomlinson Hardback

Commemorating the SeafarerMonuments, Memorials and Memory\nAuthor(s): Barbara Tomlinson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843839705, 978-1843839705\nSynopsis\nA generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them.\n\nThis book discusses memorials - stained glass windows, church, cemetery and public monuments - commemorating British seafarers, shipbuilders and victims of shipwreck from the sixteenth century to the present. Examples have been chosen mainly from Great Britain and Ireland with a few from wider afield. They include important works by major British artists as well as more modest productions by anonymous carvers. The book retells the dramatic stories behind them, illustrating significant social and cultural changes in Britain's relationship to the sea. Memorials vividly illustrate the hazards of seagoing life and the impact these had both.