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Participation in heritage crowdsourcing
(C. Bonacchi, A. Bevan, A. Keinan-Schoonbaert, D. Pett, J. Wexler, Participation, «Heritage Crowdsourcing. Museum Management and Curatorship», 34, 2019, n. 2, pp. 1-18, (2019)
This paper draws upon the experience of several years of running a multi-application crowdsourcing platform, as well as a longitudinal evaluation of participant profiles, motivations and behaviour, to argue that heritage ...
What Can Public History Do for Museums, What Can Museums Do for Public History?
(I. Porciani, What Can Public History Do for Museums, What Can Museums Do for Public History?, «Memoria e Ricerca. Rivista di storia contemporanea», 2017, 1, pp. 21-40, 2017)
In the early 19th century, at the dawn of the historical professions, historians did not dismiss working with objects and collaborating with museums. It was the increasing professionalization of the discipline of history ...
Public History e Patrimoine: due casi di storia applicata
(A. Torre, Public History e Patrimoine: due casi di storia applicata, «Quaderni storici», n. 3, 2015, pp. 629-660, 2015)
The work seeks to reflect on the alleged crisis of history today by comparing the different ways in which historical disciplines have developed outside the academy during the 1970s and 1980s. For that it tries to reconstruct ...
Cooking the Books: Contested Colonial Commemorations in Australia
(T. Ireland, Cooking the Books: Contested Colonial Commemorations in Australia, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 2, pp. 1-4, 2018)
Controversy around the celebration of Captain Cook as a founding father of the Australian nation is not new, but dates back to the nineteenth century when his first statues were raised. The latest plans made by Australia’s ...
Public History in Egypt: The Power of Public History in Protecting Cultural Heritage
(H. Abd el Salam, Public History in Egypt: The Power of Public History in Protecting Cultural Heritage, «International Public History», 3, 2020, n. 1, 2020)
Public history is a significant field of education that teaches people about their past. However, it still does not exist in countries like Egypt, which is in great need of the field to link Egyptians with their history. ...
Off The Pedestal: The Fall of Edward Colston
(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 ...
A New Zeal for History: Public History in New Zealand
(A. Trapeznik, A New Zeal for History: Public History in New Zealand, «Public History Review», 30 (2023), pp. 79–88, 2023)
Public history is still a relatively unknown term in New Zealand, an island nation in the southwest pacific with a population of around 4.6 million people. Until the late 1980s it was rare for professional historians to ...
Flying Below the Radar. Civil Aviation Heritage in Australia's Northern Territory
(F. Shanahan, Flying Below the Radar: Civil Aviation Heritage in Australia’s Northern Territory,«Public History Review», 28 (2021), pp. 1–13, 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 ...
The State We are in: UK Public History, since 2011
(A. Atkinson-Phillips, G. Smith, The State We Are In: UK Public History since 2011, «Public History Review», 30, 2023, pp. 22–30, 2023)
As public historians living and working in Britain, we live in interesting times. The last twelve years have seen political turbulence in the United Kingdom and its four constituent nations of England, Northern Ireland, ...
La moto dalla strada ai musei. Tra conservazione e strategie di valorizzazione
(B. Fragnelli, La moto dalla strada ai musei. Tra conservazione e strategie di valorizzazione. «Clionet. Per un senso del tempo e dei luoghi», 8 (2024). https://doi.org/10.30682/clionet2408n, 2024)
Lungo lo stivale sono molteplici le realtà, piccole e grandi, impegnate in attività di conservazione e valorizzazione di motociclette. Queste non sono più riconosciute solo per il proprio valore tecnico-industriale, ma ...