Private Lives, Public History

Anna Clark
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Private Lives, Public History

Subjects

History

Published

1 February 2016

ISBN

9780522868951

Pages

192

Subjects

History

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

Private Lives, Public History

Anna Clark
The past is consumed on a grand scale: popularised by television programs, enjoyed by reading groups, walking groups, historical societies and heritage tours, and supported by unprecedented digital access to archival records. Yet our history has also become the subject of heated political debate.

In Private Lives, Public History, historian Anna Clark explores how our personal pasts intersect with broader historical questions. Drawing on interviews with Australians from five communities around the country, she uncovers how we think about the past in the context of our local and intimate stories, and the role that history plays in our lives.
The past is consumed on a grand scale: popularised by television programs, enjoyed by reading groups, walking groups, historical societies and heritage tours, and supported by unprecedented digital access to archival records. Yet our history has also become the subject of heated political debate.

In Private Lives, Public History, historian Anna Clark explores how our personal pasts intersect with broader historical questions. Drawing on interviews with Australians from five communities around the country, she uncovers how we think about the past in the context of our local and intimate stories, and the role that history plays in our lives.

Anna Clark

Anna Clark

Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. She has written extensively on history education, historiography and historical consciousness, including Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History (2006); History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom (2008); Private Lives, Public History (2016); The History Wars (2003) with Stuart Macintyre, as well as two history books for children, Convicted! and Explored!

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