Dr Hlda Kean, Visiting Professor University of Greenwich
‘Families, Places and Pasts: Whose history? And who decides?’
26 November 2014
A3 Arts Building 6pm
There is never just one history constructed for all time: histories are constantly contested and disputed. This lecture will consider the different ways in which we make histories from our varying past experiences. Because people have left traces in the landscape and in the stories that we pass down in families we can, if we choose, make histories from these fragments for the present.
Dr Hilda Kean FRHistS is a public and cultural historian. From July 2014 she is a visiting professor at the University of Greenwich where she is teaching a module on public history on the new MA course in History. She is the former Dean of Ruskin College, Oxford, where she taught history for many years. Hilda established and developed the first MA in Public History in Britain and courses on animal- human history. In recognition of her work on public history she has also been made an adjunct professor at the Australian Centre of Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. Hilda has published widely on animal-human history, animal rights and representation, how people make sense of the past, family history, public history, women’s suffrage, labour heritage, and London.