• Should They Stay or Should They Go? Contested Statues 

  Yeats, Christine (C. Yeats, Should They Stay or Should They Go?: Contested Statues, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–3, 2021)

  This contribution considers the current debates about the place of monuments, such as the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, which reached a recent high point during the Black Lives Matter protests across Australia in ...
• A Matter of History' Or What to do With an Empty Plinth 

  Sentance, Nathan (N. Sentance, ‘A MATTER OF HISTORY’: Or What to do With an Empty Plinth, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 147-151, 2021)

  Can we engage in the discussion around colonial monuments if we not are prepared to engage in potentially uncomfortable conversations about our shared history? This commentary asks this and questions why we velementally ...
• Off The Pedestal: The Fall of Edward Colston 

  Moody, Jessica <University of Bristol> (J. Moody, Off the Pedestal: The Fall of Edward Colston, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–5, 2021)

  This paper considers the fall of the statue of Edward Colston in long historical perspective and reflects on the place of history, memory and ‘heritage’ within this. The statue has its own long history of protest and ...
• Righting History: Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 

  Kiem, Paul <HTANSW> (P. Kiem, Righting History: Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1-8., 2021)

  In recent years there has been ongoing controversy in the United States regarding monuments and place names commemorating the Confederate cause in the American Civil War. The following discussion focuses on Monument Avenue ...
• Making Public History. Statues and Memorials 

  Kean, Hilda (H. Kean, Making Public History: Statues and Memorials. «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp.1–7, 2021)

  In June 2020 Black Lives Matter had become prominent in the USA and was taken further in various countries . This included opposition to certain statues and memorials , such as those previously supporting slavery. Such ...
• Assorted Bastards of Australian History 

  Daley, Paul <The Guardian> (P. Daley, Assorted Bastards of Australian History. «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–4, 2021)

  Cook looms as large in Australian statuary as he does in nomenclature and, perhaps especially, psyche. To those who still deify him as the explorer at the vanguard of white-hatted colonial Enlightenment he remains the Neil ...
• Unfinished Business: Rewriting the Past 

  Clark, Anna <Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney> (A. Clark, Unfinished Business: Rewriting the Past, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–4., 2021)

  Understanding History’s history requires reading and analysing the texts it has produced across time, and the diverse historians who made them. In settler-colonial societies like Australia, understanding the power and ...
• Erasing History? Monuments as Archaeological Artefacts 

  Baxter, Claire (C. Baxter, Erasing History?: Monuments as Archaeological Artefacts, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp.1–3, 2021)

  Following work on a master’s thesis about relocating monuments, the author reflects on the way that public monuments form an archaeological record of a society, arguing that by thinking of monuments as archaeology rather ...
• ‘Who controls the past… controls the future’: A Case for Dialogical Memorialisation 

  Smith, Mariko <Australian Museum> (M. Smith, ‘Who controls the past… controls the future’: A Case for Dialogical Memorialisation, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–12, 2021)

  Ultimately, dialogical memorialisation is a way to promote critical thinking and engagement with these old statues, moving away from viewing them as nineteenth-century memory culture relics and transforming them into more ...
• Set in Stone? Dialogical Memorialisation and the Beginnings of Australia’s Statue Wars 

  Scates, Bruce (B. Scates, Set in Stone? Dialogical Memorialisation and the Beginnings of Australia’s Statue Wars, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp.1–12, 2021)

  Memorials to white explorers and pioneers long stood (virtually) unchallenged in the heart of Australia’s towns and cities. By occupying civic space, they served to legitimise narratives of conquest and dispossession, ...
• 'Remembering Aesi': Women's History, Dialogical Memorials and Sydney's Statuary 

  Lindsey, Kiera (K. Lindsey, ‘Remembering Aesi’: Women’s History, Dialogical Memorials and Sydney’s Statuary, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–16., 2021)

  In this article I draw upon a definition of ‘dialogical memorial’ offered by Brad West to offer an experimental artist's brief that outlines the various ways that a contemporary monument to the colonial artist, Adelaide ...
• Toppling the Past? Statues, Public Memory and the Afterlife of Empire in Contemporary New Zealand 

  Ballantyne, Tony (2021-06-22)

  This article explores some of the recent debates over statues, memorials and cultures of commemoration in New Zealand. These 'statue wars' are particularly focused on explorers, military men, colonial governors, and even ...
• Un romanzo giallo sotto il segno dell'inferno 

  Cotugno, Anna Maria (2022-01)

  Nel saggio l’autrice conduce un’indagine intertestuale che evidenzia i termini del “dialogo” tra antico e moderno in cui la Commedia dantesca torna prepotentemente a costituire la fonte, sempre viva e attuale, a cui ...
• L’esame del cursus dantesco in una nuova applicazione 

  Di Patre, Patrizia (2022-01)

  Nel presente articolo si descrivono le modalità di esecuzione del cursus dantesco, obbedienti sempre a schemi di una rigida simmetria. Tali lineamenti, assolutamente peculiari di Dante, si possono riscontrare anche ...
• Federico De Roberto: la guerra in controluce, tra Storia e antistoria 

  Raffaele, Ferdinando (2022-01)

  L’articolo ha come oggetto la rappresentazione del primo conflitto mondiale negli scritti di Federico De Roberto. L’autore, dopo l’entrata in guerra dell’Italia, partecipa alle attività di propaganda a sostegno del ...
• Il ‘Ritratto di Frate Ludovico Marra’ nella Basilica di Santa Fara a Bari 

  Sica, Riccardo (2022-01)

  Il saggio attribuisce a Donato Piperno o a Paolo De Matteisil Ritratto di Frate Ludovico Marra che è nella Basilica di Santa Fara a Bari. La duplice ipotesi attributiva è il risultato di un’analisi dettagliata,stilistica ...
• «M’insegnavate come l’uom s’etterna». Per una didattica della salvezza nella ‘Commedia’ 

  Tambasco, Itala (2022-01)

  Scegliere di rendere la sua salvezza un fatto tutt’altro che individuale e ammettere che essa passi attraverso un processo di edificazione formativa ‘guidata’ è una trasposizione concreta del modo dantesco di intendere ...
• Ivan Pupo, «Nessuno trionfa, tranne il caso». Le ultime novelle di Pirandello tra filologia e critica, Edizioni di pagina, Bari 2021 

  Onorii, Simona (2022-01)

  Recensione di IVAN PUPO, «Nessuno trionfa, tranne il caso». Le ultime novelle di Pirandello tra filologia e critica, Edizioni di pagina, Bari 2021, 291 pp.
• Antonio Lucio Giannone, Ricognizioni novecentesche. Studi di letteratura italiana contemporanea, Edizioni Sinestesie, Avellino 2020 

  Paiano, Alessio (2022-01)

  Recensione di Antonio Lucio Giannone, Ricognizioni novecentesche. Studi di letteratura italiana contemporanea, Edizioni Sinestesie, Avellino 2020
• Rosa Montero, La buena suerte, Al-faguara, Madrid 2020 

  Guarino, Augusto (2022-01)

  Recensione a ROSA MONTERO, La buena suerte, Alfaguara, Madrid 2020, 325 pp.

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