People and Their Pasts: Public History Today - Paperback

by P. Ashton (Editor), H. Kean (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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