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This issue of Public History Review discusses aspects of the distinctive role of public historians that goes beyond an approach simply aimed at bringing in people to exhibitions or making historical knowledge ‘accessible’. As James Gardner argued in the last issue of Public History Review, ‘We are o...

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Main Author: Hilda Kean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2011-12-01
Series:Public History Review
Subjects:
Public history
museum studies
memory
archives
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/phrj/article/view/2447
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spelling doaj-9c258db508674e4dbd924d25ce4ebaab2020-11-25T00:47:38ZengUTS ePRESSPublic History Review1833-49892011-12-011810.5130/phrj.v18i0.24471615IntroductionHilda Kean0Ruskin College, OxfordThis issue of Public History Review discusses aspects of the distinctive role of public historians that goes beyond an approach simply aimed at bringing in people to exhibitions or making historical knowledge ‘accessible’. As James Gardner argued in the last issue of Public History Review, ‘We are often our own worst enemy, failing to share what we do. If we want the public to value what we do, we need to share the process of history’. Opening up the premises underpinning different forms of historical representation can assist in widening the historical process and facilitate a way of understanding and making meaning.https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/phrj/article/view/2447Public historymuseum studiesmemoryarchives
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description This issue of Public History Review discusses aspects of the distinctive role of public historians that goes beyond an approach simply aimed at bringing in people to exhibitions or making historical knowledge ‘accessible’. As James Gardner argued in the last issue of Public History Review, ‘We are often our own worst enemy, failing to share what we do. If we want the public to value what we do, we need to share the process of history’. Opening up the premises underpinning different forms of historical representation can assist in widening the historical process and facilitate a way of understanding and making meaning.
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museum studies
memory
archives
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