Doing History in Public

Tag: museums

  • Heritage in Austerity Britain

    Heritage in Austerity Britain

    By James Dowsett – @jdowsea James in an MPhil Student in Modern British History at Cambridge. His research focusses on plebeian constitutionalism in the long eighteenth-century. March will be the final month the Queen Street and Helmshore Mill Museums are open to the public. These beleaguered monuments, the last working examples of the Lancashire cotton spinning…

  • 3D scans – bringing History to a wider audience.

    3D scans – bringing History to a wider audience.

    by James Lloyd – @jtlloyd3 James is a PhD student at the University of Reading/Exeter in Classics. His thesis is entitled: ”Music and Ritual in Ancient Sparta: the lead votive figurines of the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia” In recent years, there has been a flurry of new technologies emerging at a price which makes them…

  • History from below: fashion, freedom, and the female form

    History from below: fashion, freedom, and the female form

    By Carys Brown @HistoryCarys Attempts to shape the female form are nothing new, as current exhibitions at the V&A and York Castle Museum show. Neither is the particular concern with the posterior, demonstrated today by an increased demand for buttock implants. Such permanent “improvements” are beyond the financial reach of most people. The less wealthy (or less…

  • ‘Where are the Dinosaurs?’: Reflections on Public History at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

    ‘Where are the Dinosaurs?’: Reflections on Public History at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

    by Tom Smith – @TomEtesonSmith What connects the obscure lives of neurophysiologist Geoffrey Sonnabend and opera singer Madelena Delani? Are these people even real? Is there really an elaborate miniature engraving of the Crucifixion on that seemingly ordinary fruit stone? Are we supposed to take these heroic portraits of the dogs of the Soviet space programme…