Public History – People and their Pasts
International inter-disciplinary Public History
Conference
Ruskin College, Oxford, UK
Friday – Saturday September 16th/17th 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
Organising group: Phil Coward, WEA organiser
[log in to unmask], Paul Martin, Museum Studies,
Leicester University & Ruskin [log in to unmask],
Steve Mills, American Studies, Keele University
[log in to unmask], Ron Noon, Social Sciences
School, Liverpool John Moores r.p.noon @livjm.ac.uk,
Martin Spafford, History teacher
[log in to unmask], Melanie Tebbutt, History
Department Manchester Metropolitan University
[log in to unmask], Hilda Kean, [log in to unmask]
Admin enquiries to –
Melanie Reynolds, Conference Organiser, Ruskin
College, Walton Street, Oxford, OX1 2HE
[log in to unmask] 01865 517811
General enquiries to –
Hilda Kean, Course Director MA in Public History,
[log in to unmask]
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