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MacLean, Malcolm 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5750-4670
(1996)
‘Public History: A Cheap Chronicle for an Imagined Public?’.
CQU Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies.
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Abstract
This paper examines the way in which public history is defined and inter-relates with academic history. The attempted colloquialization of professional history by those advocating public history has coincided with the end of the welfare state. These factors are connected: the qualification inflation so central to meritocracy has resulted in a myriad of graduate degrees and no academic jobs. At the same time, various public bodies have fallen victim to the changes resulting from the hegemony of finance capital and have sought to enshrine themselves through official records – often called histories, usually chronicles. This demise of public institutions has given non-academic professional historians a space to work. To legitimate their work, they have invented a new sub-discipline: Public History.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Additional Information: | Paper presented to 'Writing in Public' Department of Communication and Media Studies Symposium Central Queensland University October 28, 1995 |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science |
| Research Priority Areas: | Health, Life Sciences, Sport and Wellbeing |
| Depositing User: | Malcolm MacLean |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2015 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 09:11 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/2893 |
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