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    • Statue Wars 

      Ashton, Paul <University of Technology Sydney> (P. Ashton, Statue Warsm, «Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–12, 2021)

    • 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 ...

    • Dark Pasts in the Landscape: Statue Wars in Western Australia 

      Gregory, Jenny (2021-06-22)
      In an era of reconciliation and truth-telling, many have questioned the symbolic power of statues. A storm of controversy across the globe galvanised an electric energy in which many statues were damaged or toppled. Statues ...

    • 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 ...

    • 'Setting the Scene': Statue Wars and Ungrateful Citizens 

      Lindsey, Kiera <Griffith University>; Smith, Mariko <Australian Museum> (2021)
      This article provides an outline of the current statue wars in Australia, England, America, New Zealand and Eastern Europe before reviewing the many of the acts of public history making these contestations have inspired ...

    • Flying Below the Radar. Civil Aviation Heritage in Australia's Northern Territory 

      Shanahan, Fiona (2021)
      Australian government administrators and private enterprise took full advantage of the opportunities made possible by civil aviation in Australia’s Northern Territory. Yet, there is a common perception among Territorians ...

    • Collective Immersion by Affections: How Children Relate to Heritage Sites 

      Trenter, Cecilia (2021)
      This article explores, through group-interviews and in terms of peer-culture, the ways in which pupils negotiate experiences from school-excursions to three heritage sites, Vadstena Castle, a former Royal Castle connected ...

    • A Brief Editorial Note on Relations and Megadungeons in the Digital and Public Humanities 

      Fischer, Franz <Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia>; Mantoan, Diego <Università degli Studi di Palermo>; Tramelli, Barbara <Libera Università di Bolzano> (F. Fischer, D. Mantoan, B. Tramelli, A Brief Editorial Note on Relations and Megadungeons in the Digital and Public Humanities, «Magazén», 4, 2023, n. 2, pp. 181-182, 2023)
      After four years of deep methodological reflections on our scholarly field, we are pleased to announce the publication of the first guest-edited issue of magazén, thus hopefully kickstarting a new trend in our Journal’s ...

    • A New Chapter in a Journal’s Life and the Broadening Field of Digital and Public Humanities 

      Fischer, Franz <Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia>; Mantoan, Diego <Università degli Studi di Palermo>; Tramelli, Barbara <Libera Università di Bolzano> (F. Fischer, D. Mantoan, B. Tramelli, A New Chapter in a Journal’s Life and the Broadening Field of Digital and Public Humanities, «Magazén», 5, 2024, n. 1, pp. 5- 7, 2024)

    • La centralità del cd.“Interesse ambientale” nella contrattualistica pubblica 

      Santoro, Ermanno (Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2023-01-10)
      Il presente lavoro ad oggetto l’analisi dell’“Interesse ambientale”, inteso come tutela giuridica dell’Ambiente, nella sua concezione unitaria, connotata da un sistema omogeneo di norme; di poteri amministrativi; di ...