New Paths to Public Histories

by Finn, Margot; Smith, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781137480491
• ISBN10: 1137480491
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-09-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot

Summary

New Paths to Public Histories argues that common understandings of who owns history and who writes history need to be dramatically reworked. It suggests that academic historians can enrich their scholarship by recognizing historical research produced by local and family historians, archivists, curators, heritage sector professionals and by finding new ways of researching in concert with these constituencies. With contributions from academics, museum professionals, curators, local historians and archivists this innovative volume explores how and when different research communities can overlap and why shared conversations are important. New Paths to Public Histories is an essential resource for historians interested in public history and heritage. It tracks the practical, financial, ethical and intellectual issues at stake in collaborative research projects and shows how important they are to current and future ways of working.

Author Biography

Margot Finn is Professor of Modern British History at University College London, UK. She is the author of After Chartism (1993) and The Character of Credit (2003), and co-editor of Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Law, Literature and History (2010). She was formerly an editor of the Journal of British Studies.
 
Kate Smith is Associate Fellow at University College London, UK, where she works on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project East India Company at Home, 1757-1857, led by Professor Margot Finn. She is also Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, specializing in Eighteenth-Century History, and previously worked as Charles Hummel Fellow at the Chipstone Foundation, USA. In 2014, Kate published her first monograph entitled Material Goods, Moving Hands: Perceiving Production in England, 1700-1830.

Table of Contents

1. From Competition to Collaboration: Local Record Office and University Archives and the Country House; Helen Clifford and Keith Sweetmore
2. Revealing the Global Histories of Country Houses: Cross-Sector Collaboration in Action at Osterley Park House; Claire Reed and Kate Smith
3. Creating Collaboration: Accessing the Archive; Georgina Green and Margaret Makepeace
4. Outside the Public: The Histories of Sezincote and Prestonfield in Private Hands; Ellen Filor and Janice Sibthorpe