People And Their Pasts

People and their Pasts covers a range of stimulating topics discussing the different forms and ways the past is represented in the present. It explores these issues under three broad headings: the past in the present; presenting the past; places, communities and personal pasts. Review: 'This important and imaginative book explores the myriad ways in which the past is represented and remembered, remade and contested.

Starting from the premise that 'we are all historians', People and their Pasts uses rich case studies from around the world to examine the aims, approaches and impacts of public history and the pivotal role of the public historian.' - Alistair Thomson, Monash University, Australia