History and the public
On 13 - 14 February 2006 the IHR held a conference called 'History and the Public'. The conference brought together a broad range of people from universities, archives, museums, publishers and the media to discuss how the public study and consume history.
This conference at the IHR was followed by another conference at Swansea University (Wales) on 12 - 14 April 2007. This conference was organised by the History Department, Swansea University, in conjunction with the IHR and the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. The papers from this conference are hosted on the Swansea University website.
The audio files below are in MP3 format. If you have any problems listening to them, please email ihr.webmaster@sas.ac.uk.
Plenary lectures
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Historical thinking and the enhancement of public debate
John Tosh (Roehampton)
Chair: David Bates (IHR)
Listen to this talk (39 mins; 11.5MB) -
Whose heritage?
Liz Forgan (Heritage Lottery Fund)
Chair: David Bates (IHR)
Listen to this talk (43 mins; 10.0MB) -
Art history and the public at the National Gallery
Charles Saumarez Smith (The National Gallery)
Chair: Ludmilla Jordanova (King's College London)
Listen to this talk (38 mins; 11.0MB) -
An Australian perspective on public history
Darryl McIntyre (Museum of London)
Chair: John Beckett (Victoria County History)
Listen to this talk (36 mins; 9.5MB)
Roundtable discussion
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A summary of thoughts on the conference
Chair: John Beckett (Victoria County History)
Listen to this discussion (26 mins; 7.8MB)
You can find all the speakers and discussion topics on the conference programme (rtf file, 17KB).