People and their Pasts: Public History Today

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: People and their Pasts and Public History Today....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-22
Connecting with History: Australians and their Pasts....Pages 23-41
Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History....Pages 42-56
The Past as a Public Good: The US National Park Service and ‘Cultural Repair’ in Post-Industrial Places....Pages 57-73
Shades of Grey: Public History and Government in New Zealand....Pages 74-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-93
‘Garden of Gratitude’: The National Memorial Arboretum and Strategic Remembering....Pages 95-112
Re-enacting the Wars of the Roses: History and Identity....Pages 113-130
Creating New Pasts in Museums: Planning the Museum of London’s Modern London Galleries....Pages 131-145
‘Monument Mania’? Public Space and the Black and Asian Presence in the London Landscape....Pages 146-162
Museum Theatre: Children’s Reading of ‘First Person Interpretation’ in Museums....Pages 163-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-185
A Nation’s Moment and a Teacher’s Mark Book: Interconnecting Personal and Public Histories....Pages 187-202
Absent Fathers, Present Histories....Pages 203-222
‘Memoryscape’: Integrating Oral History, Memory and Landscape on the River Thames....Pages 223-239
Expanding the Archive: The Role of Family History in Exploring Connections Within a Settler’s World....Pages 240-259
Harry Jacobs: The Studio Photographer and the Visual Archive....Pages 260-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-304