People and Their Pasts Public History Today

by Kean, Hilda; Ashton, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780230546691
• ISBN10: 0230546692
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

People and their Pastscovers a range of stimulating topics discussing the different forms and ways the past is represented in the present. It explores these issues under three broad headings: the past in the present; presenting the past; places, communities and personal pasts.

Author Biography

Paul Ashton is Associate Professor of Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Founding co-editor of Public History at UTS, his books include The Accidental City. Planning Sydney Since 1788 (1993) and (with Jennifer Cornwall and Annette Salt) Sutherland Shire: A History (2006). Hilda Kean is Director of Public History at Ruskin College, Oxford. She has published widely on cultural and public history Her books include Deeds not Words. The lives of suffragette teachers (1990); Animal. Rights. political and social change in Britain since 1800 (1998/2000); London Stories: personal lives, public histories (2004).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Intorduction: People and their Pasts and Public History Today	p. 1
The Making of History	p. 21
Connecting with History: Australians and their Pasts	p. 23
Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History	p. 42
The Past as Public Good: The US National Park Service and 'Cultural Repair' in Post-Industrial Places	p. 57
Shandes of Grey: Public History and Government in New Zealand	p. 74
Presenting the Past in Place and Space	p. 91
'Gardent of Gratitude': The National Memorial Arboretum and Strategic Remembering	p. 95
Re-enacting the Wars of the Roses: History and Identity	p. 113
Creating New Pasts in Museums: Planning the Museum of London's Modern London Galleries	p. 131
'Monument Mania'? Public Space and the Black and Asian Presence in the London Landscape	p. 146
Museum Theatre: Children's Reading of 'First Person Interpretation' in Museums	p. 163
Material Culture, Memory and Public Histories	p. 183
A Nation's Moment and a Teacher's Mark Book: Interconnecting Personal and Public Histories	p. 187
Absent Fathers, Present Histories	p. 203
'Memoryscape': Integrating Oral History, Memory and Landscape on the River Thames	p. 223
Expanding the Archive: The Role of Family History in Exploring Connections Within a Settler's World	p. 240
Harry Jacobs: The Studion Photographer and the Visual Archive	p. 260
Select Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 297
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