What is Public History Now? Exploring engagement, impact, collaboration and coproduction in History Higher Education

现在什么是公共历史？

• 批准号: AH/W001497/1
• 负责人: Julia Laite
• 金额: $ 3.01万
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW001497%2F1
• 关键词: What; Public; History; Now; Exploring

Public History, that is history that is made and/or communicated outside of the academy and the study of this kind of history within the academy, is rapidly becoming an established subdiscipline of history in the UK. However, compared to intellectual and academic projects in places like Australia, Canada and the United States, UK public history has developed relatively late. In the United States, the first public history programme was founded in 1975. By contrast, the first MA in Public History in the UK was not founded until 1996, and almost two decades passed before another one was established. The surge in interest in Public History in United Kingdom Higher Education over the past half decade is remarkable, and underwritten by a rich intellectual tradition (Samuel, 1991) that has begun to translate into an explosion of exciting research projects, programmes and collaborations. Since around 2013, over 15 new Public History MA programmes have been founded, and the majority of UK history undergraduate and graduate programmes offer modules and pathways in public history and heritage. Several new Public History Centres and Institutes have been founded, while other Centres have expanded their remit to explicitly include public history. Thanks to the strong push for 'impact and engagement' and collaboration with external partners from the UKRI (and other) funding bodies, all historians are thinking about 'public history' to an unprecedented degree, and many research projects increasingly take public history as their central focus. Meanwhile, interest in public history outside the academy has never been greater. Thanks in part to the enormous growth in digitized records; more accessible archives, libraries and heritage institutions; and renewed interest in different kinds of popular history books, television, and media, more people are making history in public than ever before, and finding new ways to communicate, disseminate, and connect their history work with others and inside and outside the academy. At the same time, history has never been more controversial, debated, and fought-over as it is in the present day: from falling statues to the national curriculum, from the use of 'history' by state institutions and by the radical right, it is clear that the past is alive-and often enflamed-in the present.It seems therefore a very good time to bring together academic historians who work in the field of public history, teach on public history programmes and run public history centres, in order to examine and develop our ideas, our programmes, and our collaborations with each other, and with non-academic historians widely defined. This research network will consist of a series of agenda-setting, best-practise sharing, and resource-creating workshops, including the creation of a 'hub' website. It will culminate in a major conference bringing together academic public historians and non-academic public historians to examine the state of the field in all its forms, and develop exciting partnerships between higher education and the vibrant, thriving world of non-academic public history.

公共历史，即在学院之外制作和/或传播的历史，以及在学院内对这种历史的研究，正在迅速成为英国历史学的一个分支学科。然而，与澳大利亚、加拿大和美国等地的知识和学术项目相比，英国公共历史的发展相对较晚。在美国，第一个公共历史课程成立于1975年。相比之下，英国的第一个公共历史硕士学位直到1996年才成立，并且在另一个硕士学位建立之前已经过去了近二十年。在过去的五年中，英国高等教育对公共历史的兴趣激增是显着的，并由丰富的知识传统（塞缪尔，1991年）承保，已开始转化为令人兴奋的研究项目，计划和合作的爆炸。自2013年左右以来，超过15个新的公共历史硕士课程已经成立，大多数英国历史本科和研究生课程提供公共历史和遗产的模块和途径。一些新的公共历史中心和研究所已经成立，而其他中心已经扩大其职权范围，明确包括公共历史。由于对“影响和参与”的大力推动以及与UKRI（和其他）资助机构的外部合作伙伴的合作，所有历史学家都在前所未有的程度上思考“公共历史”，许多研究项目越来越多地将公共历史作为他们的中心焦点。与此同时，学术界之外对公共历史的兴趣从未如此浓厚。部分由于数字化记录的巨大增长;更容易访问的档案馆，图书馆和遗产机构;以及对不同类型的流行历史书籍，电视和媒体的重新兴趣，更多的人比以往任何时候都在公开创造历史，并找到新的方式来沟通，传播和连接他们的历史工作与他人和学院内外。与此同时，历史从来没有像今天这样充满争议、争论和争斗：从倒下的雕像到国家课程，从国家机构和激进右翼对“历史”的使用，很明显，过去在现在是活生生的--而且经常被点燃。因此，现在似乎是一个很好的时机，把在公共历史领域工作的学术历史学家聚集在一起，教授公共历史课程和运行公共历史中心，以检查和发展我们的想法，我们的计划，我们彼此之间的合作，并与非学术历史学家广泛定义。这个研究网络将包括一系列的研讨会设置，最佳做法分享，和资源创建研讨会，包括创建一个“枢纽”网站。它将在一个重要的会议上达到高潮，汇集学术公共历史学家和非学术公共历史学家，以研究各种形式的领域状态，并在高等教育和充满活力，蓬勃发展的非学术公共历史世界之间建立令人兴奋的伙伴关系。