Centre for Public History
About Us
The Centre for Public History provides a lively hub for people engaged in researching and practicing public history. We seek to nurture excellent research, provide a forum for debate, and develop working dialogue between academics, practitioners, and the public around issues relating to the practice of history in the public sphere.
Research associated with the Centre focuses on a wide range of national and global contexts, historical periods, and disciplines, while our location in Northern Ireland provides a unique environment in which to explore many key issues around dealing with difficult, contested or traumatic pasts in the public sphere. We partner with communities and public history institutions locally and globally to better understand how history works, and can be put to work, in the public sphere and how to engage diverse public audiences in exploring their own pasts and those of others in ways that are truly collaborative.
MA in Public HistoryThe MA in Public History at Queen’s University Belfast offers an opportunity to study how historical knowledge is produced, mediated, represented and consumed in public spaces, in a region where the past continues to resonate powerfully. The course combines academic training in historical theory and research methods with specialised topics relating to history in the public sphere, such as negotiating contested pasts, oral history, heritage and tourism, or digital curation, thus linking the analytical and critical approaches of traditional academic history with innovative ways of creating and disseminating histories for a diverse variety of public audiences. |
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