Overview

In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

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Author:   P. Ashton ,  H. Kean
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.418kg
ISBN:  

9781137285904

ISBN 10:   1137285907
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   11 December 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: People and their Pasts and Public History; P.Ashton  and H.Kean PART I: THE MAKING OF HISTORY Connecting with History: Australians and their Pasts; P.Ashton  and P.Hamilton Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History; B.E.Jensen The Past as a Public Good: the US National Park Service and 'cultural repair' in Post-industrial Places; C.Stanton Shades of Grey: Public History and Government in New Zealand; B.Dalley PART II: PRESENTING THE PAST IN PLACE AND SPACE 'Garden of Gratitude': the National Memorial Arboretum and Strategic Remembering; P.Gough Re-enacting the Wars of the Roses: History and Identity; M.O'Brien Backhouse Creating New Pasts in Museums: Planning the Museum of London's Modern London Galleries ; D.McIntyre Monument mania? Public Space and the Black and Asian Presence in London; J.Siblon Museum Theatre: Children's Reading of 'first person interpretation' in Museums; V.Tzibazi PART III: MATERIAL CULTURE, MEMORY AND PUBLIC HISTORIES A Nation's Moment and a Teacher's Mark Book: Interconnecting Personal and Public Histories; H.Kean  and B.Kirsch Absent Fathers, Present Histories; M.Bashforth 'Memoryscape' : Integrating Oral History, Memory and Landscape on the River Thames; T.Butler Expanding the Archive: The Role of Family History in Exploring Connections within a Settler's World; M.Stewart Harry Jacobs: the Studio Photographer and the Visual Archive; J.Newman Select bibliography Index

Reviews

'This important and imaginative book explores the myriad ways in which the past is represented and remembered, remade and contested. Starting from the premise that 'we are all historians', People and their Pasts uses rich case studies from around the world to examine the aims, approaches and impacts of public history and the pivotal role of the public historian.' - Alistair Thomson, Monash University, Australia

Author Information

PAUL ASHTON Associate Professor of Public History, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia MEGHAN O'BRIEN BACKHOUSE Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Oxford, UK MARTIN BASHFORTH Assistant Archivist, the National Railway Museum in York, UK TOBY BUTLER Project Director, the London East Research Institute, University of East London, UK BRONWYN DALLEY Chief Historian, New Zealand's Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand PAUL GOUGH Professor of Fine Arts and Executive Dean, the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. PAULA HAMILTON Associate Professor of History, the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia BERNARD ERIC JENSEN Associate Professor of History and History Didactics, the School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark HILDA KEAN Director of Public History and Humanities Co-ordinator, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK BRENDA KIRSCH Freelance writer and editor DARRYL MCINTYRE Group Director, Public Programmes, the Museum of London, UK JON NEWMAN Archive Manager, Lambeth Archives, South London, UK JOHN SIBLON City and Islington College, London, UK and Ruskin College, Oxford, UK CATHY STANTON Union Institute& University, Ohio, USA MARY STEWART Assistant Curator for Oral History, the British Library Sound Archive, UK VASILIKI TZIBAZI Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, Winchester University, UK

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