Ruskin Public History Discussion Group

Spring and Summer 2009 

Saturday January 17th
Book launch of People and their Pasts Public History Today (Palgrave ) and discussion of themes of the book  

introduced by Hilda Kean (Joint editor with Paul Ashton) and British-based contributors including Martin Bashforth,Toby Butler, Paul Gough, Jon Newman, Mary Stewart, and John SIblon  

Saturday 7th March

Pat Furley
Ruskin College
A history of a particular sewing machine:

How the Public History of an object informs our understanding of Women's History   

Saturday May 9th

Professor Robert Gildea
University of Oxford
Towards an Oral history of 1968 in France'  

Saturday June 6th 

Dr Jerome de Groot
University of Manchester
Bodily re-enactment and reality documentary: historical diet television and physical experience of the past  

We meet for coffee at 10.30 with the session starting at 11 and finishing by 1 at : Ruskin College, Walton Street, Oxford, 0X1 2HE  

Contact Dr Hilda Kean 01865 554331 or hkean@ruskin.ac.uk

To be included on mailing list email Eamonn Deeley edeeley@ruskin.ac.uk

Diary date: Legacies and Futures 9th Public history conference September 19th 2009. Details to follow