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If historical culture is the specific and particular ways that a
society engages with its past, this book aims to situate the
professional practice of public history, now emerging across the
world, within that framework. It links the increasingly varied
practices of memory and history-making such as genealogy,
podcasting, re-enactment, family histories, memoir writing,
film-making and facebook histories with the work that professional
historians do, both in and out of the academy. Making Histories
asks questions about the role of the expert and notions of
authority within a landscape that is increasingly concerned with
connection to the past and authenticity. The book is divided into
four parts: 1. Resistance, Rights, Authority 2. Memory,
Memorialization, Commemoration 3. Performance, Transmission,
Reception 4. Family, Private, Self The four sections outline major
themes emerging in public history across the world in the 21st
century which are all underpinned by the impact of new media on
historical practice and our central argument for the volume which
advocates a more capacious definition of what constitutes 'public
history'.
Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public
history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations
like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers,
linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming
individuals’ understandings of themselves and the world. This
book examines the practice, meanings and impact of undertaking
family history research for individuals and society more broadly.
In this ground-breaking new book, Tanya Evans shows how family
history fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural, religious
and ethnic knowledge, how it shapes historical empathy and
consciousness and combats social exclusion, producing active
citizens. Evans draws on her extensive research on family history,
including survey data, oral history interviews and focus groups
undertaken with family historians in Australia, England and Canada
collected since 2016. Family History, Historical Consciousness and
Citizenship reveals that family historians collect and analyse
varied historical sources, including oral testimony, archival
documents, pictures and objects of material culture. This book
reveals how people are thinking historically outside academia, what
historical skills they are using to produce historical knowledge,
what knowledge is being produced and what impact that can have on
them, their communities and scholars. The result is a necessary
revival of the current perceptions of family history.
Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public
history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations
like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers,
linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming
individuals’ understandings of themselves and the world. This
book examines the practice, meanings and impact of undertaking
family history research for individuals and society more broadly.
In this ground-breaking new book, Tanya Evans shows how family
history fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural, religious
and ethnic knowledge, how it shapes historical empathy and
consciousness and combats social exclusion, producing active
citizens. Evans draws on her extensive research on family history,
including survey data, oral history interviews and focus groups
undertaken with family historians in Australia, England and Canada
collected since 2016. Family History, Historical Consciousness and
Citizenship reveals that family historians collect and analyse
varied historical sources, including oral testimony, archival
documents, pictures and objects of material culture. This book
reveals how people are thinking historically outside academia, what
historical skills they are using to produce historical knowledge,
what knowledge is being produced and what impact that can have on
them, their communities and scholars. The result is a necessary
revival of the current perceptions of family history.
The poorest men and women in colonial NSW are no longer
marginalised, but front and centre in a book that reveals what life
was like for them. Most convicts arriving in New South Wales didn't
expect to make their fortunes. Some went on to great success,but
countless convicts and free migrants struggled with limited
prospects, discrimination and misfortune. Many desperate people
turned to The Benevolent Society, Australia's first charity founded
in 1813, for assistance and sustenance. In this rich and revealing
book, Tanya Evans collaborates with family historians - many
writing about their own ancestors - to present the everyday lives
of these people. The detailed and extensive archives of The
Benevolent Society allow us to reclaim these unknown lives and
understand our own history better, not to mention the often random
nature of betterment and progress.
This is the first book to describe the real lives of unmarried
mothers, and attitudes towards them, in England from the First
World War to the present day. The focus is on England because the
legal positions, and other circumstances, of unmarried mothers were
often very different elsewhere in Britain. The authors use
biographies and memoirs, as well as archives and official sources,
to challenge stereotypes of the mothers as desolate women, rejected
by society and by their families, until social attitudes were
transformed in the 'permissive' 1960s. They demonstrate the
diversity of their lives, their social backgrounds, and how often
they were supported by their families, neighbours, and the fathers
of their children before the 1960s, and the continuing hostility by
some sections of society since then. They challenge stereotypes,
too, about the impact of war on sexual behaviour, and about the
stability of family life before the 1960s. Much of the evidence
comes from the records of the National Council for the Unmarried
Mother and Her Child, set up by prominent people in 1918 to help a
social group they believed were neglected, and which is still very
active today, as Gingerbread, supporting lone parents in need of
help. Their work tells us not only about the lives of those mothers
and children who had no other support, but also another important
story about the vibrancy of voluntary action throughout the past
century and its continuing vital role, working alongside and in
co-operation with the Welfare State to help mothers into work among
other things. Their history is an inspiring example of how,
throughout the past century, voluntary organizations in the 'Big
Society' worked with, not against, the 'Big State'.
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