People and their Pasts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: People and their Pasts and Public History Today

   1. Introduction: People and their Pasts and Public History Today

      • Hilda Kean, Paul Ashton

      Pages 1-20

3. The Making of History

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22

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   2. Connecting with History: Australians and their Pasts

      • Paul Ashton, Paula Hamilton

      Pages 23-41

   3. Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History

      • Bernard Eric Jensen

      Pages 42-56

   4. The Past as a Public Good: The US National Park Service and ‘Cultural Repair’ in Post-Industrial Places

      • Cathy Stanton

      Pages 57-73

   5. Shades of Grey: Public History and Government in New Zealand

      • Bronwyn Dalley

      Pages 74-90

4. Presenting the Past in Place and Space

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-93

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   2. ‘Garden of Gratitude’: The National Memorial Arboretum and Strategic Remembering

      • Paul Gough

      Pages 95-112

   3. Re-enacting the Wars of the Roses: History and Identity

      • Meghan O’Brien Backhouse

      Pages 113-130

   4. Creating New Pasts in Museums: Planning the Museum of London’s Modern London Galleries

      • Darryl McIntyre

      Pages 131-145

   5. ‘Monument Mania’? Public Space and the Black and Asian Presence in the London Landscape

      • John Siblon

      Pages 146-162

   6. Museum Theatre: Children’s Reading of ‘First Person Interpretation’ in Museums

      • Vasiliki Tzibazi

      Pages 163-182

5. Material Culture, Memory and Public Histories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-185

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   2. A Nation’s Moment and a Teacher’s Mark Book: Interconnecting Personal and Public Histories

      • Hilda Kean, Brenda Kirsch

      Pages 187-202

   3. Absent Fathers, Present Histories

      • Martin Bashforth

      Pages 203-222

   4. ‘Memoryscape’: Integrating Oral History, Memory and Landscape on the River Thames

      • Toby Butler

      Pages 223-239

   5. Expanding the Archive: The Role of Family History in Exploring Connections Within a Settler’s World

      • Mary Stewart

      Pages 240-259

   6. Harry Jacobs: The Studio Photographer and the Visual Archive

      • Jon Newman

      Pages 260-278

6. Back Matter

   Pages 279-304

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In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

• culture
• history
• material culture
• Memoria
• Museum
• national park

'This important and imaginative book explores the myriad ways in which the past is represented and remembered, remade and contested. Starting from the premise that 'we are all historians', People and their Pasts uses rich case studies from around the world to examine the aims, approaches and impacts of public history and the pivotal role of the public historian.' - Alistair Thomson, Monash University, Australia

'As historians we need to postion orselves within this wider framework, and engage with different forms of history. The collection provides a thought-provoking guide to some of the debates we might find there.' The English Historical Review

'. . . thought provoking and insightful . . .' The Public History Review

'the chapters are cohesive and cumulative, responding deftly and elegantly to the volume's overall themes and framework... a valuable resource for both students and the informed scholar' - International Journal of Heritage Studies

• University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Paul Ashton

• Ruskin College, Oxford, UK

  Hilda Kean

PAUL ASHTON Associate Professor of Public History, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia MEGHAN O'BRIEN BACKHOUSE Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Oxford, UK MARTIN BASHFORTH Assistant Archivist, the National Railway Museum in York, UK TOBY BUTLER Project Director, the London East Research Institute, University of East London, UK BRONWYN DALLEY Chief Historian, New Zealand's Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand PAUL GOUGH Professor of Fine Arts and Executive Dean, the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. PAULA HAMILTON Associate Professor of History, the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia BERNARD ERIC JENSEN Associate Professor of History and History Didactics, the School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark HILDA KEAN Director of Public History and Humanities Co-ordinator, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK BRENDA KIRSCH Freelance writer and editor DARRYL MCINTYRE Group Director, Public Programmes, the Museum of London, UK JON NEWMAN Archive Manager, Lambeth Archives, South London, UK JOHN SIBLON City and Islington College, London, UK and Ruskin College, Oxford, UK CATHY STANTON Union Institute& University, Ohio, USA MARY STEWART Assistant Curator for Oral History, the British Library Sound Archive, UK VASILIKI TZIBAZI Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, Winchester University, UK

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