The History Faculty is committed to supporting ethical, egalitarian projects in community history, which should fully respect the time, energy and knowledge contributed by all participants to research and public engagement activity. Making your project an inclusive, fair and egalitarian one can take some time and careful planning. Here you can find some helpful resources and published research on ‘community history in action’, which you can read through to help you design and frame your project.
The literature listed below is available to read via the Bodleian Libraries. If you need help accessing any of it, feel free to get in touch with Dr Atwal at community@history.ox.ac.uk. Similarly, please write in if you have relevant material or publications to add to our reading list.
‘Making Histories, Sharing Histories: Putting University-Community Collaboration into Practice’
Booklet by Ian Grosvenor, Sarah Lloyd, Nicola Gauld and Anna Hammerin (November 2020)
Books and articles
Christoper Dyer (ed.), New directions in local history since Hoskins (Hatfield, 2011)
Paula Hamilton & James B. Gardner (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Public History (2017)
See especially:
Barbara Franco’s chapter, ‘Decentralizing Culture: Public History and Communities’;
T. Allan Comp, ‘From Environmental Liability to Community Asset: Public History, Communities and Environmental Reclamation’;
Hilda Keane, ‘Public History as a Social Form of Knowledge’.
Laura King & Gary Rivett, ‘Engaging People in Making History: Impact, Public Engagement and the World Beyond the Campus’, History Workshop Journal, vol.80, issue 1 (Autumn 2015), pp. 218-233
Sarah Lloyd & Julie Moore, ‘Sedimented Histories: Connections, Collaborations and Co-production in Regional History’, History Workshop Journal, Volume 80, Issue 1, Autumn 2015, Pages 234–248
Insa Muller, The Local Museum in the Global Village: Rethinking Ideas, Functions, and Practices of Local History Museums in Rapidly Changing Diverse Communities (2020)
John Jameson & Sergiu Musteață (eds.), Transforming heritage practice in the 21st century: contributions from community archaeology (Cham, 2019)
Steve Watson & Emma Waterton, ‘Heritage and Community engagement’ - for a special issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 16, issues 1-2 (2010)
From the same issue, see also:
Emma Waterton and Laurajane Smith, ‘The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage’;
Elizabeth Crooke, ‘The politics of community heritage: motivations, authority and control’;
Corinne Perkin, ‘Beyond the rhetoric: negotiating the politics and realising the potential of community-driven heritage engagement’
