Making histories in museums

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    • Kavanagh, Gaynor

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Making histories in museums

edited by Gaynor Kavanagh

(Making histories in museums)

Leicester University Press, 1996

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the pilot volume in the series "Making History in Museums". It examines the museological aspects of history-making in museums, as well as the relatively-underplayed historiographical issues. Each contributor looks at the theoretical issues within a specific field of study, and each chapter contains case studies and comparisons of practice where appropriate, highlighting good practice and potential ways forward. The book establishes the themes which will be the subject of more detailed study later in the series.

Table of Contents

  • Making histories, making memories
  • time heals - making history in medical museums
  • making rural histories
  • why not invent the past we display in museums?
  • trying to be an honest woman - making women's histories
  • making family histories in the National Portrait Gallery, Australia
  • African-Americans, history and museums - preserving African American history in the public arena
  • making histories of African Caribbeans
  • cleaning-up the coal-face and doing out the kitchen - the interpretation of work and workers in Wales
  • hard men, hard facts and heavy metal - making histories of technology
  • making city histories
  • travellers' boots, body-moulding, rubber fetish clothes - making histories of sub-cultures
  • making histories of wars
  • making histories of sexuality
  • making culturally diverse histories
  • making histories of religion
  • making histories from archaeology
  • history and folklore
  • making the history curriculum
  • shadows and sacred geography - First Nations history-making from an Alberta perspective
  • making children's histories.

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