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Programme now available

 

What is Public History Now?
A one-day workshop for public and community historians, museum and archive professionals, and academics to share reflections on past, present and future approaches to Public History

Wednesday 5 September, Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, E1 6LS

 The conference is free but please make sure that you register at:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-public-history-now-tickets-48236991139

For further details, contact Ali Bennett at alison.bennett.14@ucl.ac.uk

PROGRAMME: 

09.30 Registration

10.00 Welcome: Eleanor Robson, UCL History 


10.10–11.40: PANEL ONE (Chair: Georgina Brewis, UCL)
Public History and Public Institutions (Government, Schools, and Museums)

Chris Williams (Open University) 
‘History and Policy’ and its Work with the Home Office

Sundeep Lidher (University of Cambridge)
‘Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain’.A Case Study on Public History for Schools

Elaine Tierney (V&A Research Institute)
Practicing History in a Public-Facing Institution: A View from the V&A


11.40–12.00Tea and Coffee


12.00–13.30: PANEL TWO (Chair: Andrew Flinn, UCL)
Public History in a Digital World 


Kelly Foster (Independent Researcher and Curator)
On Line and On Road: Experiencing London's Black Histories 

Toby Butler (Public Historian and Oral History Practitioner) 
East London Memoryscapes: Public History in the Digital Age

Abira Hussein (Independent Researcher and Curator)
Healing Through Archives 


13.30–14.30: Lunch (provided). Includes optional tour of Toynbee Hall


14.30-16.00: PANEL THREE (Chair, Stefanie Rauch, UCL) 
Public History and Community Archives (with a focus on East London)


Gary Haines (V&A Museum of Childhood)
‘Put the Sandwich Away please’. Twenty Years of Working in Public History

Alison Blunt (Queen Mary University of London)
Home-City-Street and Meanings of Home on the Kingsland Road (title TBC)

Rosamond Murdoch (Bow Arts)
Title TBC


16.00–16.20 Tea and Coffee

16.20–17.00UCL Roundtable: The Future of Public History at UCL

17.00Closing remarks: Eleanor Robson, UCL History

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