Dr John Price has authored a number of books, and has written extensively for edited collections, journals, and other publications.

 

 

 

 

Heroes of Postman’s Park: Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London (2015)

Based upon extensive historical research, this book provides a full and engaging account of the dramatic circumstances behind every single one of the 54 incidents commemorated on the Watts Memorial in Postman’s Park London and reveals the vibrant and colourful lives led by those who tragically died.

 

 

 

Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian (2014)

This book establishes new avenues of study by revealing and examining ‘everyday’ heroism; acts of life-risking bravery, undertaken by otherwise ordinary individuals, largely in the course of their daily lives and within quotidian surroundings.

 

 

 

Postman’s Park: G. F. Watts’s Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice (2008)

This short book provides a comprehensive history of the Watts Memorial while also placing it into a wider historical context through the use of new research. Created in 1900 by the Victorian artist G.F.Watts, the Watts Memorial contains fifty-four memorial tablets dedicated to individuals who lost their life heroically attempting to save another.

 

 

Chapters in Books

‘Victorian Constructions of Everyday Heroism’ in Scott T. Allison; James K. Beggan and George R. Goethals, eds. Encyclopaedia of Heroism Studies (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023)

‘Everyday heroism in Britain, 1850-1939’ in Simon Wendt, ed., Extraordinary Ordinariness: Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015 (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2017)

‘Octavia Hill’s Red Cross Hall and its murals to heroic self-sacrifice’ in Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell, eds., ‘Nobler imaginings and mightier struggles’: Octavia Hill and the remaking of British society (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2016)

 

Articles

‘Baildon Street: The Blackest Street in Deptford?’, The London Journal (2024)

‘Mapping Windrush Arrivals’, Livingmaps Network Journal, issue 9 (2020)

‘Heroism in everyday life’: the Watts Memorial for heroic self-sacrifice’, History Workshop Journal, 61:1 (2007)