Doing History in Public: An Early Modern(ists’) Perspective

Joining Lucy Dean from the Centre for History, who is chairing the event, we will have three panellists. Dolly MacKinnon (Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Queensland) is a cultural historian, and her work concentrates on the marginalized and institutionalized by analysing the mental, physical (including material culture and built heritage) and auditory landscapes of the past. Anna Groundwater is a cultural and social historian, currently Principal Curator of the Renaissance and Early Modern History at National Museum Scotland, and responsible for Scottish collections, 1450-1750. Her interests in material culture include meaning-making and memorialisation, the perspectives it offers into past lived experience, and audience engagement with historical objects. Rachel Delman is the Heritage Partnerships Coordinator in the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. She is also a historian of late medieval and early modern Britain specialising in gendered interpretations of buildings and their wider landscape settings.

The underpinning question driving the discussion will be why are there not more conceptual and reflective public history scholarship about the early modern period/ by early modern scholars? Our three contributors have worked in academia, in collaboration with heritage organisations and in the museum sector, so between them they provide us with fascinating insights.

We intend for this roundtable to have plenty of space for dialogue and questions, and we really hope that it sparks a conversation that will continue beyond the event.

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