1st Edition

Public History in Poland

Edited By Joanna Wojdon Copyright 2021
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This volume presents various aspects of public history practices in Poland, alongside their historical development and theoretical reflections on public history. Despite a long tradition and variety of forms of public history, the very term "public history", or literally speaking "history in the public sphere", has been in use in Poland only since the 2010s. This edited collection... Read more

Introduction: Public History in Poland

Joanna Wojdon

Part 1: Public History and Politics

1. The Roots of the Twenty-First-Century Politics of History: The Case of Poland in Central Europe

Łukasz Kamiński

2. Towards the Ideal Vision of the 20th Century Polish History. On the Post-2015 Polish Politics of History

Rafał Stobiecki

3. New Historical Museums in Poland

Paweł Ukielski

4. Polish Historical Museums and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

Anna Ziębińska-Witek

5. The Role of Memorial Sites in Public History: The Case of Auschwitz State Museum

Piotr Trojański

6. National Pride and Echoes of Local Identity: Public History in Silesian Towns

Przemysław Wiszewski

Part 2: Public History and Research

7. Oral History in Poland

Marta Kurkowska-Budzan

8. Polish Archives: Old and New and Their Role as Public History Institutions

Lucyna Harc

9. Book Publishers as Public Historians: The Polish Case

Ewa Jabłońska-Stefanowicz

10. Pro-Social and Socialized Archaeology (Public Archaeology) in Polish Style

Anna Zalewska

Part 3: Public History and Leisure

11. Polish Feature Films as Public History

Piotr Zwierzchowski

12. Polandball: Memes and Graphic Novels as Public History

Anna Borkiewicz

13. The Historical Reenactment Movement in Poland and Its Specificity

Filip Wolański

14. Gaming the Polish Past: Case Study of Kolejka (The Queue)

Joanna Wojdon

Biography

Joanna Wojdon is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Poland, member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation for Public History and chair of the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.