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People and their Pasts

Public History Today

P. Ashton H. Kean

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English
Palgrave
04 March 2013
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.
Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Palgrave
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   418g
ISBN:   9781137285904
ISBN 10:   1137285907
Pages:   328
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

Paul Ashton is Professor of Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. Co-editor of the journal Public History Review and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History, his latest book is (with Paula Hamilton and Rose Searby) Places of the Heart: Memorials in Australia. Hilda Kean is former Dean and Director of Public History at Ruskin College, Oxford. Her books include Seeing History. Public History in Britain Now (with Paul Martin and Sally J. Morgan); London Stories. Personal lives, Public Histories and Animal Rights. Social and Political Change in Britain since 1800.

Reviews for People and their Pasts: Public History Today

'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


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