Introduction Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester, UK
1. The Making History initiative and Australian popular history Michelle Arrow, Macquarie University, Australia
2. Intervention: Public Women and Public History: Revolution, Prostitution and Testimony in Cuba Carrie Hamilton, Roehampton University, UK
3. Going on an Outing: the Historic House and Queer Public History Alison Oram, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
4. A ‘phantom freedom in a phantom modernity’?: Protestant Missionaries, Domestic Ideology and Narratives of Modernity in an Arab Context Hoda Elsadda, University of Manchester, UK
5. Intervention: Some thoughts on the problem of ‘popular/public history’ in China Gotelind Müller, University of Heidelberg, Germany
6. Public history and the fragments of place: archaeology, history, and heritage site development in southern Alberta James Opp, Carleton University, Canada
7. ‘perpetually dividing and suturing the past and present’: Mad Men and the illusions of history Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester, UK
8. Intervention: Hacking history, from analog to digital and back again William J. Turkel, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Biography
Jerome de Groot is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of The Historical Novel (2009), Consuming History (2008) and Royalist Identities (2004), as well as numerous articles on manuscript studies, historiography, popular history and early modern court culture.
