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People and their pasts

public history today

edited byPaul AshtonHilda Kean

Abstract

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.

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Introduction

people and their pasts and public history today

Hilda KeanPaul Ashton

pp.1-20

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_1
Usable pasts

comparing approaches to popular and public history

pp.42-56

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_3
The past as a public good

the us national park Service and "cultural repair" in post-industrial places

Cathy Stanton

pp.57-73

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_4
Shades of grey

public history and government in New Zealand

Bronwyn Dalley

pp.74-90

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_5
"Garden of gratitude"

the national memorial arboretum and strategic remembering

Paul Gough

pp.95-112

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_6
Creating new pasts in museums

planning the museum of London's modern London galleries

Darryl McIntyre

pp.131-145

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_8
"Monument mania"?

public space and the black and Asian presence in the London landscape

John Siblon

pp.146-162

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_9
Museum theatre

children's reading of "first person interpretation" in museums

Vasiliki Tzibazi

pp.163-182

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_10
"Memoryscape"

integrating oral history, memory and landscape on the river Thames

Toby Butler

pp.223-239

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_13
Expanding the archive

the role of family history in exploring connections within a settler's world

Mary Stewart

pp.240-259

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_14
Harry Jacobs

the studio photographer and the visual archive

Jon Newman

pp.260-278

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234468_15

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2009

Pages: 304

DOI: 10.1057/9780230234468

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-36109-0

ISBN (digital): 978-0-230-23446-8

Full citation:

Ashton Paul, Kean Hilda (2009) People and their pasts: public history today. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.