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People & their Pasts. International Public History Conference
Ruskin college, Oxford 16 ? 17 September 2005
This is the first international public history conference to be held in
Britain. Bringing together public & community historians, museum curators,
archivists, artists & activists the conference will explore the
relationship between personal, local and national histories, different
forms & presentation of history, the relationship between the ways in which
the past is both presented for people and people’s own practices & sense of
the past. It will include discussion of the role of art, memorials and
buildings & developments in museums, education & the media.
Over 50 workshop presentations ranging from re-enactments, Mark Twain’s
boyhood home, war memorials, Women’s history in India, controversy in
national museums, H blocks, black history, an alternative clothes show to
family history, and a Yugo car. Speakers from many countries including
Australia, Scotland, India, USA, Ukraine, New Zealand, Wales, Belarus,
Denmark, Poland, Greece, Bulgaria and England. See the website for full
details.
Plenary speakers include:
Paul Ashton: co-director ‘Australians & the past’ project, University of
Technology, Sydney on ‘Contested pasts & controversial presents’
Bronwyn Dalley: chief historian, New Zealand ministry for culture &
heritage on 'Our People, Our Pasts, Our Taxes: public history in New Zealand
Lawrence Goldman: editor New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford on
‘New national biographies’
Darryl McIntyre: group director Museum of London, formerly National Museum,
Canberra on ‘Exploring controversies in the National Museum of Australia
and & the Museum of London’
Patrick Wright: writer & broadcaster on ‘Heritage and the place of critical
argument'
See our website for further details & how to book: www.ruskin.ac.uk
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