• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • ‘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 ...