BA, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FRSA, FIFL, FHEA,

Dr Hilda Kean researches and publishes in public and cultural history and the cultural position of animals.

Key books include:

2009 ed with Paul Ashton People and their Pasts. Public History Today (Palgrave Macmillan, pp.304)

2004 London stories. Personal Lives, Public Histories (Rivers Oram Press, pp 229)

2000 eds with Paul Martin & Sally Morgan, Seeing History. Public History in Britain Now, (Francis Boutle)pp. 194

1998 Animal Rights : Social and Political Change in Britain since 1800, (Reaktion Books) (Paperback 2000)pp.272

1990 Deeds not Words: the Lives of Suffragette Teachers, (Pluto)pp.179

Recent articles include:

2011 forthcoming, English Labour movement festivals and the past: commemorating defeat and creating martyrs, in eds Laurajane Smith, Gary Campbell & Paul Shackel Cultural Heritage and the Working Class, Routledge

2011 forthcoming, Traces and representations: animal pasts in London’s present, The London Journal ,(February)

2011 forthcoming, The Emergence of Animal Protection in Britain in ed Andrew Linzey, Animal Encyclopedia ,University of Princeton Press

2010 forthcoming, Public History in Britain today: a country obsessed with reinventions of the past, Hard Times, (December)

2010 People, Historians and Public History: De-mystifying the Process of History Making, Public Historian , vol.32, no 3 August

2009 with Brenda Kirsch, The teacher’s markbook: the pupils’ memory. An exploration of the elision of the official and unofficial in creating new ideas of personal pasts, in Hilda Kean & Paul Ashton People & their Pasts. Public History Today

2008 Personal and Public Histories: issues in the presentation of the past for ed Brian Graham and Peter Howard The Ashgate International Heritage Reader, Heritage and Identity, Ashgate

2007 The mood of militancy: Anti –vivisection in nineteenth century Britain BBC History magazine December,pp. 36-8

2007 Reflections on ‘ Men must be educated and women must do it: the National Federation (later Union) of Women Teachers and contemporary feminist 1910 – 30’ Hilda Kean and Alison Oram Gender and Education 2(2), 1990, Gender & Education, vol 19,no.6, November, pp. 657-662

2007 Public history and the past: slavery memorials in Lancaster, North West Labour History Review no 32, pp.23 - 25

2007 The moment of Greyfriars Bobby : the changing cultural position of animals 1800 – 1920 in ed Kathleen Kete A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire 1800 – 1920 vol 5 Berg , pp. 25-46

2007 Public Histories of Australian & British Women’s Suffrage: Some comparative issues Public History Review ( Professional Historians Association, New South Wales, Australia)

2006 Public history and two Australian dogs: Islay & the dog on the tuckerbox Australian Cultural History Journal vol 24 2006, pp.135-162

2005 Public History & Popular Memory. Issues in the commemoration of the British militant suffrage movement Women’s History Review vol 14 nos 3&4 pp. 581 -604

2004 Public history and Raphael Samuel: a forgotten radical pedagogy? Public History Review ( Professional Historians Association, New South Wales, Australia)

2004 Various contributions to the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP):Theodora Bonwick, Gertrude Colmore and Harold Baillie Weaver, Agnes Dawson, Muriel Dowding, Alice Drakoules, Emily Phipps, Mary Richardson , Mary Tealby

2003 An exploration of the sculptures of Greyfriars Bobby , Edinburgh, Scotland and the old brown dog in Battersea, South London, England, Society and Animals Journal of Human- Animal Studies vol 11: 4, 2003, pp. 353 -373

2003 The transformation of political and cultural space in eds Joe Kerr and Andrew Gibbon London: from Punk to Blair (Reaktion Books), pp 148 - 156

2003 Making History in Bethnal Green: different stories of nineteenth century silk weavers (with Bruce Wheeler) History Workshop Journal 56

2001 Imagining Rabbits and Squirrels in the mythical English countryside Society and Animals Journal of Human- Animal Studies vol 9:2 pp.163 - 175