Paul Martin

Tutor in History
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Paul has researched and published widely on public and cultural history. His interests include the past in the present and the dialogues between them; material culture and public history (collecting and identity; the historical self etc); popular music as public history (1960s-70s especially); cultures and concepts of time, place, pastness and narrative.

His recent publications include:

2002 ed. with Susan Pearce, The Collector's Voice: Volume IV - The Contemporary Voice, Aldershot, Ashgate Press

2002 The Trade Union Badge - Material Culture In Action, Aldershot, Ashgate Press

2001Popular Collecting And The Everyday Self : the reinvention of museums? Continuum

2000 eds with Hilda Kean and Sally Morgan, Seeing History. Public History in Britain Now, Francis Boutle

2002 ‘Echoes In the Wilderness: British Popular Conservatism 1945-1951’, Ball, S. & Holliday, I. eds Mass Conservatism: The Conservatives and the Public since the 1880s, London, Frank Cass, pp.120-138

2000 ‘Sound Judgements: the compact disc reissue scene as public history’ in Kean, H.; Martin, P; Morgan, S. eds. Public History Now in Britain, London, Francis Boutle pub. pp.163-182

1999 ‘Look, See, Hear: a remembrance with approaches to public history at Ruskin’ in Andrews, G., Kean, H., Thompson, J. eds. Ruskin College: contesting knowledge, dissenting politics, London, Lawrence & Wishart, pp.145-166

Virtual articles appearing in Sweet Floral Albion: the on-line journal of British psychedlelia:

including: Matt Monroe’s ‘Dream Weaver’ Moment (#33, October 2004)

Magical Spiel: The Music of Paul & Barry Ryan 1965-1976 (#32 September 2004)

Think Pink: Proto psych musings (#31, August 2004)

All Grown Up?: '50s hit paraders in the later '60s (#19 July, 2003)

Pop group biographies / web pages :

www.punkbrighton.co.uk