Public and Popular History


2010-10-26 16:30: The Politics of Commemoration: The Armenian Genocide on TV (Eric Friedler, Director of Aghet (2010) and Head of Historical Documentaries, NDR/ARD)

2010-11-09 17:30: The Uses of History in Whitehall (Professor Patrick Salmon, Chief Historian, Foreign & Commonwealth Office)

2010-11-23 17:00: The Dynamics of TV History (Taylor Downing, Flashback TV)

2011-02-08 17:00: Antiquities, archaeology and the public (Helen Geake)

2011-05-17 17:00: Panel Discussion: How Football Explains British History (Jonathan Wilson (Guardian football correspondent & book author), Kevin Moore (Director of the Football Museum), and Philippe Auclair (France Football))

2012-05-21 16:30: ‘The Fall: the end of Honecker’ – screening of film (90m, subtitled), followed by discussion with director Eric Friedler (Eric Friedler (NRD))

2012-10-24 17:00: I, the Presenter: The Making of TV History (Helen Castor & David Heathcote)

2012-11-07 17:00: Architectural Heritage or Awful Houses? (Owen Hathereley, journalist & writer; Andrew Saint, architectural historian and editor of the Survey of London (English Heritage); Peter Mandler (Cambridge))

2012-11-21 17:00: Forging a Community: The EU's House of European History (Taja Vovk van Gaal (EU, Brussels) & Prof Wolfram Kaiser (Portsmouth))

2013-02-20 17:00: History and Conspiracy (Prof Christopher Andrew (Corpus Christi, Cambridge) & Dr Stephen Dorril (Huddersfield) )

2013-05-15 17:00: THE FUTURE OF THE PAST AT THE BBC (Martin Davidson, History Commissioning Editor, BBC; & Professor Helen Weinstein)

2013-10-16 17:00: Moulding history for a video game story (Charles Cecil, Revolution Software)

2013-11-13 17:00: The Heritage Industry (Dame Fiona Reynolds, Master of Emmanuel College & Dr Anna Whitelock, Director of Centre for Public History, Heritage & Engagement, Royal Holloway)

2014-02-12 17:00: The Imperial War Museum and the Great War: New Galleries, New Narratives? (James Taylor (IWM New Galleries) & Dan Todman (Queen Mary, London))

2014-03-05 17:00: A dangerous conversation: Staging British History (Frank Cottrell Boyce)