In association with the award of the RHS Public History Prize
It is anticipated that the workshop will become an annual event, which every second year will also celebrate the award of one postgraduate and one undergraduate prize in public history, in conjunction with the Historical Association. Part of the workshop will be devoted to discussing how a vibrant community of research and practice can be developed in Britain and what support students and early-career researchers need. The idea behind the workshop is to give those at the beginning of their academic lives a supportive forum to share their ideas, make contacts and help shape the future of the field.
The workshop is free and refreshments will be provided on the day, but no travel bursaries are available for this first running of the workshop
Justin Champion, Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London, and President of the Historical Association.
Pamela Cox, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, and presenter of the BBC series Shopgirls: the True Story Behind the Counter and Servants: the True Story of Life Below Stairs.
Ludmilla Jordanova, Professor of History and Visual Arts and Cultures, Durham University; Trustee of the Science Museum Group and chair of its collections and research committees; author of History in Practice and The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice..
Programme
10.00 Lawrence Goldman to open event
10.20 Pam Cox: Public Audience History (+Q&A)
10.50 Daniel Johnson: Public Engagement and the Making of the Twenty-First Century Museum
Michael Mantin: From Pithead to Sick Bed: Disability and the South Welsh Coal Industry in the Museum
(+Q&A)
11.50 Ludmilla Jordanova: Public History – A Provocation (+Q&A)
12.20 Lunch
13.20 Alexander Hutton: Golden Age Thinking: Historians of the Industrial Revolution and their Publics
Claire Hayward: Memorialising the Past and Representing the Present in ‘homomonuments’: the commemoration of same-sex love and LGBTQ communities
(+Q&A)
14.20 Activity: Advocating Public History
15.00 Tea
15.20 Justin Champion: ‘Making public, making a difference’: designing research questions with a public purpose?
15.50 Discussion
16.30 Close