Whose History is it Anyway?
Date : 5 and 6th September 2013
Location : Foster Building, UCLan
Contact : To register your interest or for further details please contact Emma Woodward email publichistory@uclan.ac.uk or call 0044 1772 894500
Public History in Perspective Conference
This is a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at a wide range of history and heritage practitioners making no distinction between professionals and non-professionals. Papers are thus invited from academic historians, those working or volunteering in the museum, heritage and archives sectors, those working in the media, film makers, funding bodies, policy makers, publishers, along with family, local and community historians.
Call for Papers
The first call for papers resulted in a large number of diverse papers being offered from the UK, North America and Australia. However, there is still room for more papers so we are issuing this final call for papers.
To download the full call for papers please select Conference Call for Papers (.DOC, 773KB)
Alongside general thematic papers, papers exploring issues through specific and focussed case studies are also welcome. Suggested themes include:
Family/community history and heritage
- Public history and personal identity
- Self as history
- Family history
- Online historical communities
Institutionalised history and heritage
- Institutionalised and non-institutionalised history
- History and the documentary record: accessions and archival challenges
- History, artefacts and collections: museums and heritage as public history
History, heritage, politics and funding
- The politics of public history
- Public policy and public history
- Volunteering, charities and public history
History, heritage and class
- Public history, commemoration and class
- History and cultural legacies
- History and popular culture, popular culture as history (religion, sport, music, film etc.)
Public History and social inclusion:
- Migration histories
- Commemorating Black histories
- History, heritage and gender
Presenting history and heritage
- The mediation of history
- Public history online and on television
- History, heritage and visual culture
Proposals are invited for single papers or panels. For a single paper please submit up to 250 words along with a short biographical note, your organisation (if any) and contact details. Prospective panel organisers should submit up to 500 words along with a short biographical note and contact details for each speaker. Work may subsequently be considered for publication.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 21st March, 2013. Proposals, or enquiries relating to these, should be sent to the following email address: publichistory@uclan.ac.uk
Conference Programme
Whose History is it Anyway?: Public History in Perspective, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 5th and 6th September 2013 Thursday 5th September
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| 9:00-9:30 | Registration and tea/coffee | ||||
| 9:30-9:45 | Welcome and introduction | ||||
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9.45-11.15 |
The Museum in the Community 1Katy Archer(People’s History Museum) Play Your Part at the People’s History Museum Stephanie Chinneck (Macquairie University) Philanthropy and engaging with history: a case study from Macquarie University Kate Lukaszewicz (Duquesne University) A More Inclusive Narrative of Pittsburgh: Comparing Two Long-Term Exhibits in a Regional History Museum Community Histories 1Laurence Cassidi Reclaiming Urban Community History: Using Digital Archives and Material Culture in Salford Neil Dymond-Green (Working-Class Movement Library) Invisible Histories: How do the stories of a working past affect the present? Sarah Lloyd and Julie Moore (University of Hertfordshire) ‘Sedimented Histories’: connections and collaborations in regional history History and MediaSian Barber (Queens, Belfast) Film and the past: Popular history within the ‘Carry On’ films Ellen Hughes/Victoria Stevens (Bristol Kitchen Radio) Bristol Kitchen Radio Kate Murphy (Bournemouth University) Woman’s Hour: telling history, being history, making history… Construction of personal, family and community history 1Theano Moussouri (UCL) Reflections and conversations about diasporic identities among African Caribbean visitors at a social history museum Stephan Ramsden (University of Hull) Public histories and the social construction of community – a small-town perspective, 1945-2010 Eleni Vomvyla (UCL) Voicing the stories of the excluded: identity and personal history making in the home settings of Albanian families in Athens
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| 11:15-11:35 | Tea/coffee | ||||
| 2 | 11:35-13:05 |
Archives and the CommunityFrances Casey (Imperial War Museum) IWM’s War Memorials Archive: Crowd sourcing and mediation a case study Chris Coates (TUC Archive) UNION HISTORY ONLINE – the TUC Library Collections’ public history websites archives online Craig Gauld (University of Dundee) A Means of Memory, Not Memory Itself: The Responsible Archive Community EngagementLaura King (University of Leeds) Our Fathers: Reflecting on a Creative Public Engagement Project Annemarie McAllister (UCLan) Temperance and Community Identity in the North West, 1832-2012: the Demon Drink Project The Public History of Science and TechnologyTim Boon (Science Museum), Annika Joy (Science Museum) , Hilary Geoghegan (UCL) Joint panel, co-presenting (See abstract) Public history past and futureSebastian Fry (English Heritage) The birth of a national heritage collection Adam Guttridge (Guild of St. George) Nineteenth Century Public History from a Twenty-First Century Perspective: John Ruskin, Community Outreach, and Contemporary Sheffield Joseph Maslen (UCLan) Soft Power: What Margot Kettle’s Recollections of a Younger World tells us about dynamics of public history |
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| 13:05-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00-15:00 | Keynote: Hilda Kean | ||||
| 15:00-15:20 | Break | ||||
| 3 | 15:20-17:20 |
Preston Guild and Public HistoryKate Newman (Lancashire Archives) Whose Guild is it? Keith Vernon (UCLan), Pageants of Preston’s Past: Preston Guild and Public Education Sue Latimer (Harris Museum & Art Gallery) Not Just Anytown. The Harris Museum & Art Gallery and the Mediation of Preston’s Past Samantha Blackburn (Preston City Council), The Presence of the Past in Preston Guild 2012 Race and Public HistoryAnandi Ramamurthy (UCLan) Digital archiving and black struggles, Alan Rice (UCLan) Searching Inside the Invisible: Discovering Black Presence in the Spectral Interstices Jessica Moody (University of York) Which public, whose history? The memory of slavery in Liverpool and public history, Zoe Whitley (UCLan) Ole Mis': Contextand [mis?]interpretation in the art of Kara Walker Mark Sealey (University of Durham) and Renee Mussai (UCL) Missing Chapters and Black Chronicles Teaching Public History
Martin Brown (University of Staffordshire) ‘Presenting the Past’: Reflections on a History undergraduate module 2007-Present Nigel Carter Sign the petition – ‘Keep Mary Seacole and Olaudah Equiano on the National Curriculum’ Thomas Cauvin (University of Michigan) How do we teach public history ? Examples from a working group’s discussion Thomas Morris (University of Lincoln) History on Apps: Is this the possible future of our past? Uses and concepts of HistoryCatherine Fletcher (University of Sheffield) Race, sexuality and the early modern Kate Jarman (National Archives) What is the public value of family history? Stephen Meredith (UCLan) ‘Myths of the Past’: The Use (and Misuse) of History in the Construction of ‘New’ Labour Anthony McIntosh (University of Brighton) Whose history is it anyway? ‘Public’ history in perspective |
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| 18:30 | Pre-dinner drinks reception | ||||
| 19:15 | Conference dinner in Foster refectory | ||||
Friday 6th September
| 9:00-9:30 | ||
| 4 | 9:30-11:00 |
The Museum in the Community 2Martin and Pat Bashforth ‘Diverse Evill Disposed Persons’ George Stevenson (Durham University) Living history from below: democratising the past Bridget Yates Tackling the task head on: the rise of the local history society museum in the 1940s and 1950s Community Histories 2Stephen Caunce(UCLan) Researching history in ‘the landscape of Hell foreshadowed’: reconciling personal experience, local meaning and academic history John Herson (Liverpool John Moores University) What’s in a Name? Explaining the History of Migrant Families Lisa Edwards (Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies) Memory, Myth and the Truth: Secrecy and the State in World War Two Construction of personal, family and community history 2Ansar Ollah with John Eversley (Swadhinata Trust) History of Bengalis in the UK Jacqueline Wilson (University of Ballarat) Redeeming Sites of Injustice: Human Rights and the Forgotten Australians Steve Watson (York St John University College) and Emma Waterton (University of Western Sydney) A War Long Forgotten: Feeling the Past in an English Country Village
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| 11:00-11:20 | Tea/coffee | |
| 5 | 11:20-12:50 |
Uses/sites of Public HistoryCaron Lipman and Catherine Nash (Queen Mary, London) Living with the Past at Home: Domestic Prehabitation and Inheritance Alix Green (University of Herfordshire) Putting history and heritage to use inside and outside the university Anna Scott (University of Lincoln) Have I Got Histories For You: the shifting tales of the Mayflower Pilgrims World War One HistoriesNick Mansfield (UCLan) Fifty Years of Great War commemoration, 1964-2014 Material HistoriesAlex Lawrey Modernity and the ‘Human Zoo’: historical crafts in the 21st century
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12.50 – 13.50 |
Lunch | |
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13.50-14.50 |
Keynote: Tristram Hunt |
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14.50– 15.10 |
Tea/coffee |
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| 6 |
15.10 – 16.40 |
Public CommemorationEureka Heinrich (King’s, London) ‘Add your name to History’: migrant memorial walls and the nation Representations and their public historiesClaire Hayward (Kingston University) Putting the Invisible Past in the Present: Representing Same-Sex Attraction in Museums
Performing HistoryPaul Long (Birmingham City University) The Sound of History? Popular Music and Public History |
| 16.40-1700 | Plenary session – Public History: the way forward? |
Conference Venue
Conference Venue - Preston Main Campus
Foster Building, University of Central Lancashire
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 2HE
Details on directions can be found on our how to find us pages
Keynote Speakers
Confirmed Speaker: Hilda Kean
Further details to follow.
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Accommodation
The Conference and Events Team work closely with local hotels to provide quality accommodation at the most competitive rates. Please see below some of the hotels that we work with and the details of all the hotels can be found on their websites:
Preston Legacy International Hotel
http://www.legacy-hotels.co.uk/legacy-preston/index.php
£59.50 B&B per room per night
Preston Holiday Inn
http://www.hipreston.com/
£72.00 B&B per room per night
Preston Marriott
http://www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/blkbp-preston-marriott-hotel/
£120 B&B per room per night
Premier Inn Preston
Fox Street, Preston, PR1 2AB Tel: 0871 527 8908
http://www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/PRECEN/preston-central
£61 double/twin B&B per room per night
£58 single B&B per room per night
IBIS
Garstang Road, Preston. PR3 5JE
Telephone Number(s) 01772 861800
Fax Number: 01772 861900
Website: http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-3162-ibis-preston-north/index.shtml
£46 Room only per night (£7.50 breakfast can be booked separately)
Travel Lodge Preston Central
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=305