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dc.contributor.authorHaunton, Melinda <Archive Sector Development, The National Archives, London>
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-16T15:29:50Z
dc.date.available2021-11-16T15:29:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationMelinda Haunton, Georgie Salzedo, A duty, an opportunity and a pleasure: connecting archives and public history, «Archives and Records», 42, n. 1, 2021, pp. 40-57it_IT
dc.identifier.issn2325-7962it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/5781
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-3880
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the intersection of public history and archives, with particular reference to the practice of promoting broad participation in interpreting the historical past. Key concepts in public history such as democratising history, power dynamics, authenticity and the role of audiences in history-making are examined in dialogue with analogous archival concepts and activities. The extent to which UK archives are sites of public history is tested, providing evidence of the breadth of activity falling within a definition of public history and thereby demonstrating the value of engagement between these parallel disciplines. The article closes with suggestions for developing an ethics of public history within archives, informed by the theory and practice of both disciplines but with an essential focus on the specificity of the public history context of archives. The authors do not attempt to resolve areas of tension between the disciplines, but argue for a constructive relationship which recognises what public history has to teach archives and what in turn archives can bring to debates on sharing the past with wider audiences.it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 40-57it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherM Haunton, G. Salzedo, A duty, an opportunity and a pleasure: connecting archives and public history, «Archives and Records», 42, n. 1, 2021, pp. 40-57it_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectPublic historyit_IT
dc.subjectAudience developmentit_IT
dc.subjectOutreachit_IT
dc.subjectEthicsit_IT
dc.subjectArchival participationit_IT
dc.titleA duty, an opportunity and a pleasure”: connecting archives and public historyit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalArchives and Recordsit_IT
dc.identifier.e-issn2325-7989it_IT
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23257962.2020.1843417it_IT
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