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Making Public Histories - evening talk

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Date: 18th Mar 10

Location: Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, EN4 8HT

Time: 19:00 - 20:30

Cost: £7 - £5 Concessions

David Heathcote is a design historian, writer, curator and broadcaster.

In this lecture he will discuss the ways in which the requirements of different media - whether exhibitions, television programmes or publications - shape the ways that history can be told.

History is almost invariably something that we gain understanding of
through its articulation in the public domain. Most historians,
however, are woefully unprepared for the work necessary to convert
their research into something that the public can read, listen to or
view.

Historians rarely suspect, when venturing from the quiet world of
the University into the realm of public history, that what awaits them
are a vast array of good reasons as to why what they want to state
cannot be conveyed as they propose. From the length of lines and legal
constraints on seemingly innocent material to the necessity for the
historian to appear naked before the audience to tell the story, the
public realm has much in common with the gladiatorial arena.

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