The Long History of Public History in Europe Thomas Cauvin, Joanna Wojdon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cauvin, Thomas, editor.

Wojdon, Joanna, editor.

Series:

Public History in European Perspectives , 2629-4702 ; 4

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 298 p.)

Place of Publication:

München Wien De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Thomas Cauvin , C2DH, University of Luxembourg; Joanna Wojdon , University of Wrocław, Poland.

Summary:

Public history has been a rising field of theory and practice for a few decades now. Its origins are debated but the current literature places its popularization in the 1970s in the United States of America. While professional and academic history merely developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, plenty of other historical practices testified of the way certain people, groups and institutions were engaging with the past in older times. This book puts public history into longer historical perspectives in Europe. Following a chronological order, the book includes chapters on historical practices involving and addressing publics from the Antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. The case studies show the richness and diversity of public historical practices as well as re-visit the question of the role of the public in interpreting the past in countries such as Greece, Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Poland, Belgium, and Spain. In a current international context of rising public history projects, we need to be able to place the field into longer historical debates. Our objective is to contribute to and invite more research on the history of public historical practices in Europe and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1History of Public Historical Practice: A Research Methodology / Joanna Wojdon, Thomas Cauvin, Thorsten Logge, Chantal Kesteloot, Geoffrey Cubitt

The Ancient History of Public History: Public Historical Practices in Ancient Greece from an Epigraphic Perspective / Dominika Grzesik

History as the Road to Salvation? The Past as a Part of Public Discourses in Medieval Latin Europe (7th-14th century) / Przemysław Wiszewski

"Memories of the Imagination": Theorizing Public Histories on the Roman Roads / Catherine Fletcher

Making the Encyclopédie: On the Enlightened Roots of Public History / Mandy Paige-Lovingood

Izabela Czartoryska: A Polish Public Historian in the Long Eighteenth Century / Dorota Wiśniewska

Street Names: Open-air Public History? / Chantal Kesteloot

"... a National Duty, in which Every Section of our People should Collaborate": Ireland's mid-twentieth-century Bureau of Military History / Karol Mullaney-Dignam

Corporate Memory Cultures in the Emergence of Public History: British Army Regiments, Local Communities and the Framing of the Past, c. 1880-c. 1960 / Geoffrey Cubitt

Public Historical Practices in the Basque Country during the Franco Dictatorship (1939-75) / Amaia Lamikiz Jauregiondo

Tracing Historical Threads: Public Participation in Early Twentieth Century Polish Museums (1903-39) / Marta Gałuszka

Mass Observation of Everyday Life in Britain: Creating a Public History of the Everyday when the Present Becomes a Historical Moment / Fiona Courage

290Conclusion: Historicizing the Publicness of History Production / Thomas Cauvin, Joanna Wojdon

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed August 05 2026)

ISBN:

9783112218952