Public History Review

Vol 28 (2021): Statue Wars: Protest, Public Histories and Problematic Plinths

Travis De Vries, Tear it Down (Cook Falling), 2019, travisdevries.com

This special issue of Public History Review has been edited by Kiera Lindsey and Mariko Smith. Through a collection of refereed articles and invited commentaries it investigates the 2020 statue wars and their aftermath in the context of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

The cover image for this special issue is Travis De Vries 'Tear it Down (Cook Falling)' (travisdevries.com), 2019, a print of which was acquired by the Australian Museum for the Unsettled exhibition (2021). The work is reproduced with permission.

Published: 2021-02-24

Articles (PEER REVIEWED)

Collective Immersion by Affections:

How Children Relate to Heritage Sites

Cecilia Trenter, David Ludvigsson, Martin Stolare

1-21

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Flying Below the Radar

Civil Aviation Heritage in Australia's Northern Territory

Fiona Shanahan

22-40

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Articles Statue Wars (PEER REVIEWED)

'Setting the Scene':

Statue Wars and Ungrateful Citizens

Kiera Lindsey, Mariko Smith

1-17

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Toppling the Past?:

Statues, Public Memory and the Afterlife of Empire in Contemporary New Zealand

Tony Ballantyne

18-30

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Dark Pasts in the Landscape:

Statue Wars in Western Australia

Jenny Gregory

31-45

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'Remembering Aesi':

Women's History, Dialogical Memorials and Sydney's Statuary

Kiera Lindsey

46-71

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Set in Stone?:

Dialogical Memorialisation and the Beginnings of Australia’s Statue Wars

Bruce Scates

72-89

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'Who controls the past... controls the future':

A Case for Dialogical Memorialisation

Mariko Smith

90-105

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Commentaries (INVITED)

Erasing History?

Monuments as Archaeological Artefacts

Claire Baxter

106-110

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Unfinished Business

Rewriting the Past

Anna Clark

111-115

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Assorted Bastards of Australian History

Paul Daley

116-121

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Making Public History

Statues and Memorials

Hilda Kean

122-130

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Righting History

Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia

Paul Kiem

131-138

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Off The Pedestal

The Fall of Edward Colston

Jessica Moody

139-146

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'A Matter of History'

Or What to do With an Empty Plinth

Nathan Sentance

147-151

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Should They Stay or Should They Go?

Contested Statues

Christine Yeats

152-156

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Short Historical Creative Non-Fiction

Statue Wars

Paul Ashton

1-18

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Reviews

What is Digital History?

Alana Piper

1-4

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