A House in History, Heritage and Tourism: Shifting Times at Blundell's Cottage, Canberra

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Linda Young

Abstract

The history of history's institutions can offer a gritty context in which to understand historical production. A wide spectrum of influences, from the personal to the intellectual to the political, can be seen at work in shaping the history made and communicated at Blundell's Cottage over the years. Even though it has always been a humble participant in the project of history, its products probably reach some of history's larger audiences. Hence it is worthwhile to review fifty years of historio-museography.

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Linda Young, Deakin University

Dr Linda Young is a historian, teaching Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne. She was a volunteer guide, cataloguer and manager at Blundell's Cottage in Canberra in the 1990s, an experience of frustration, pleasure and edification, in which she eventually burned out, as volunteers often do.