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The National Debate: The Lord's Day Versus Sunday The National Debate: The Lord's Day Versus Sunday
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Birmingham: The Civic Gospel at Work Birmingham: The Civic Gospel at Work
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Liverpool: The Politics of Sunday Opening Liverpool: The Politics of Sunday Opening
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Manchester: From Art for the Privileged to Art for the People Manchester: From Art for the Privileged to Art for the People
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2 The Public House Versus the Public Home: The Debate over Sunday Opening
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Published:March 2012
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Abstract
This chapter addresses the question of whether art could draw people out of the pub, and whether the working classes needed a government-supported alternative to their own homes for rest and recreation. The debate over Sunday opening of the art museums directly compared the goals and claims of art and religion and marked between domesticated and “brutal” public space. The battle over Sunday opening in Liverpool reveals the powerful idea of museums as domesticated public space, and the extent to which both the use of art as a means of social reform and evangelical Sabbatarianism could become politicized. In Manchester, it shows the familiar struggle between Liberal reformers and workers supporting the opening of civic institutions on Sundays and religious organizations opposing it on the grounds of both religion and protections against a seven-day workweek. It is noted that the Sunday-opening movement crystallized the arguments of art museum supporters.
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