People and Their Pasts Book

List of Figures vii

Acknowledgments x

Notes on Contributors xi

Intorduction: People and their Pasts and Public History Today Hilda Kean Paul Ashton 1

Section 1 The Making of History 21

1 Connecting with History: Australians and their Pasts Paul Ashton Paula Hamilton 23

2 Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History Bernard Eric Jensen 42

3 The Past as Public Good: The US National Park Service and 'Cultural Repair' in Post-Industrial Places Cathy Stanton 57

4 Shandes of Grey: Public History and Government in New Zealand Bronwyn Dalley 74

Section 2 Presenting the Past in Place and Space 91

5 'Gardent of Gratitude': The National Memorial Arboretum and Strategic Remembering Paul Gough 95

6 Re-enacting the Wars of the Roses: History and Identity Megham O'Brien Backhouse 113

7 Creating New Pasts in Museums: Planning the Museum of London's Modern London Galleries Darryl McIntry 131

8 'Monument Mania'? Public Space and the Black and Asian Presence in the London Landscape John Siblon 146

9 Museum Theatre: Children's Reading of 'First Person Interpretation' in Museums Vasiliki Tzibazi 163

Section 3 Material Culture, Memory and Public Histories 183

10 A Nation's Moment and a Teacher's Mark Book: Interconnecting Personal and Public Histories Hilda Kean Brenda Kirsch 187

11 Absent Fathers, Present Histories Martin Bashforth 203

12 'Memoryscape': Integrating Oral History, Memory and Landscape on the River Thames Toby Butler 223

13 Expanding the Archive: The Role of Family History in Exploring Connections Within a Settler's World Mary Stewart 240

14 Harry Jacobs: The Studion Photographer andthe Visual Archive Jon Newman 260

Select Bibliography 279

Index 297