Public History in Poland

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 contains chapters that focus on numerous practices and media forms in public history including historical memory heritage tourism historical re-enactments memes and graphic novels films archives archaeology and oral history. As such the volume brings together the Polish experiences to wider international audiences and shares Polish controversies related to public history within the academic discourse beyond media news and politically engaged commentaries. Furthermore it sheds crucial light on the developments of collective memory historical and political debates the history of Poland and East-Central Europe and the politics of post-World War Two and post-communist societies. Authored by a team of academic historians and practitioners from the field Public History in Poland is the perfect resource for students from a variety of disciplines including Public History Heritage Museum Studies Anthropology and Archaeology. . Language: English