Processions, Power and Public Space: Corpus Christi at Cardiff, 1872–1914 

Review of periodical literature published in 2008

“…Questions of display, ritual, and communal engagement have stimulated a series of important articles. O'Leary's work (in Welsh History Review ) on the Corpus Christi processions in Cardiff between 1872 and 1914 provides fresh insight into religious pluralism in civic life, and how minority groups—in this case Irish Catholics—could lay claim to public urban space. Elliott et al. present a case study of the Nottingham Arboretum, which exposes the way in which access to this space was contested by different political and class factions.…”