Dr Hilda Kean, BA,MA,DPhil, FRHistS,FHEA,FIFL  

Dr Hilda Kean is a tutor in History. She runs our pioneering MA in Public History and organises public history conferences and the Ruskin public history discussion group. She 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:  

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,no6, 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