People and their Pasts. Public History Today edited by Ruskin History tutor Dr Hilda Kean and Dr Paul Ashton, co-director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.The collection arises from the first international Public history conference held in Britain which Ruskin College organised with support from the British Academy.
This international collection of 14 essays draws together museum professionals, family & local historians, re-enactors, archivists and a range of public history contributors to discuss and explore particular forms of public history. Here, people’s experiences and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are central to the creation of different histories.
As Professor Alistair Thomson has said, ‘This important and imaginative book explores the myriad ways in which the past is represented and remembered, remade and contested’.
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