Aug 31 2007
Cenotaphs and really good questions
As always, it just takes one student asking a good question to get me thinking. A recent senior seminar student asked for more information about an offhand description of violence against the “Cenotaph at Whitehall.” In class, I said I believed that cenotaphs were generally funerary monuments, which turns out to not be the best description. A cenotaph is actually an “empty grave” - a monument or memorial - and the Cenotaph at Whitehall is a British memorial associated with Remembrance Day and therefore Armistice Day. There are some nice explanations of cenotaphs online, and this is the official site of Whitehall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/remembrance/history/cenotaph.shtml
It’s worth noting that the vandalism Peter Howard was referring to was likely from the attacks in 2000 in the “anti-capitalist” protests in Whitehall.
Have a great labor day weekend - stay dry!
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