In Australia, the authorised heritage discourse contributes to shaping the stereotypically Australian. It actively engages in creating a contemporary national story which glosses over the more shameful or distasteful ...
This article reports part of the results of the ARC funded Australians and the Past Project in particular relation to historical authority and consciousness in Australian society.
This book is the outcome of several year's engagement with aspects of public history in Australia. It weaves together the results of a number of Australian Research Council research project which we have undertaken including ...
The period in which the public history movement has developed has been one of considerable change. This has been a result of the passing of post-war generations, the effects wrought by continuing internal and external ...
Memorials as a form of public history allow us to chart the complex interactions and negotiations between officially endorsed historical narratives, public memorials, privately sponsored memorials in public spaces and new ...
This article examines the treatment of disabled return soldiers and war widows in a model suburb, Matraville, after World War 1. It challenges previous interpretations of the experiences returned soldiers and widows of soldiers.
Local patriotism emerged in Australia in the suburbs from the mid nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, influenced by progressivism, it was a populist reaction by emerging suburbs and municipalities to state power ...
Ashton Paul; Hamilton Paula(Duke University Press, 2009)
An examination of Public History in Australia from the nineteenth century in terms of memory, race and nationalism drawing on museums, memorials, rituals, celebrations and the 'history wars'.