Public and Popular History
| Created: | 2013-03-05 12:56 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
| Description: | What happens when history narratives are produced not for library bookshelves but for a mass audience? Does popularisation of history automatically mean dumbing down? Who are the people who make history for the public sphere, and what are their motivations and priorities? The Public & Popular History seminar series brings them together, film makers, journalists, professional historians and museum curators. Through talks, multi-media presentations, panel discussions, and debates the seminar explores the practices and characteristics of public and popular history in the contemporary world. |
Media items
This collection contains 11 media items.
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Architectural Heritage or Awful Houses?
Panel Debate with Owen Hatherley, architectural historian & journalist, author of Militant Modernism (2009);
Prof Peter Mandler (Gonville & Caius), President of the Royal...
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013
History on the Internet
Panel discussion with
Jane Ellison (Commissioning Editor, Radio 4, BBC),
Matthew Cock (Head of Web, British Museum),
Bill Thompson (Technology writer and Head of...
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013
Presenting the History of Science & Technology
Panel discussion with
Tim Boon (Chief Curator, Science Museum, London),
John Lynch (CEO of TV production company Words Make Pictures Ltd, former Head of Science at BBC...
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013
The Elephant Will Never Forget? Film archiving, archaeology and historiography
Talk by
Patrick Russell (Senior Curator, British Film Institute)
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013
The Uses of History in Politics
Panel discussion with
Chris Skidmore (MP, Cons) &
Gregg McClymont (MP, Lab)
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013
‘Everybody’s a fly on the wall now: new technology and editorial control in Documentary, History and News programmes’
Hamish Mykura, Head of global development, National Geographic Channels International
Until recently, the biggest development in the making of television history programmes was...
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013
Near and Distant Neighbours 1917–1989
Jonathan Haslam, Professor of the History of International Relations
The history of Russia’s Secret Services from the Revolution to the Fall of the Wall: the Military...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
Football History
Seminar exploring whether football should be taken more seriously by historians.
Collection: Public and popular history seminars
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 25 May 2011
Moulding history for a video game story
Talk by Charles Cecil MBE, video game designer (Broken Sword series) & Director of Revolution Software, at the Public and Popular History Seminar.
Charles Cecil, video game...
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 17 Oct 2013
Teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future
J. Willgoose Esquire talks about the use and abuse of historical archives for creative work and its untapped potential. Last year J.'s band Public Service Broadcasting released an...
Collection: Public and Popular History
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 24 Jan 2014
Liberty and Coercion: Writing the History of the American State
Inaugural Lecture, Gary Gerstle, Paul Mellon Professor of American History
Thursday 12 November, 17:00, Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene College, Chesterton Road, University of...
Collection: American History
Institution: Faculty of History
Created: Thu 17 Dec 2015