Jerome De Groot
Biographic Data
| ID | 3970516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome De Groot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | De Groot |
| SIGNATURE | DE GROOT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8675-2486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conservative Public History
Sarah Abel
I don’t even trust now what I read in history books’
Family historians are a large and often neglected group of historical researchers. They have a strongly articulated sense of their practice, and a well-developed set of methodologies and research apparatuses. They mostly work on their own, or in partnership with other family members, and are associated with public libraries, archives and local historical societies. They are a community who are situated outside the academy, often marginalised by t…
History, pastness and the postgenomic imaginary
This article considers the ways that poets, rappers and artists including Kendrick Lamar, Residente, Zaffar Kunial, Michael Symons Roberts, Hannah Sullivan and Marc Quinn have responded to the biomedical postgenomic gaze and the ways in which they have dissented or built on this seemingly new way of conceiving of the human. These poets and rappers consider what it means to imagine in a postgenomic way and the possible implications of this for wri…
Ancestry.com and the Evolving Nature of Historical Information Companies
This study of the genealogy and biotech company Ancestry analyzes the ways in which the organization has evolved over the past few years. Ancestry is difficult to categorize as a corporate entity. The company trades in servicing both “traditional” types of history (genealogical records) and, more recently, biotech-based investigation through the use of DNA sequencing. Ancestry is highly influential in the way that millions of people around the wo…
Things Are Coming Out That Are Questionable, We Never Knew About
Family history is undertaken by millions around the world seeking to understand their past. This practice is understudied, and we need to work hard to understand how it works. Over the past decade, family history has been transformed through the use of DNA sequencing to enable genetic genealogy. Through analyzing data generated in a number of focus groups with family historians, this article contributes to our understanding of family history as a…
Fugitives, fields, pubs and trees
This article considers the trope of the Royal Oak across several centuries of history. The article argues that the events following Charles Stuart’s defeat at Worcester in 1651 have become a central part of the memory of the period and the construction of the “Cavalier”. In considering the “afterlife” of this event, the article looks at the way that cultural memory is constructed, in particular, and makes some suggestions about models of memory, …
Consuming History
Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how new technologi…
Remaking History
Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered. Jerome de Groot uses examples from contemporary popular cultur…
International Federation for Public History Plenary Address
This article argues for the importance of genealogy and family history to contemporary understanding and experience of the past. Through looking at various ways that genealogy might be undertaken and imagined, the article argues that this important area needs to be further conceptualized and studied by public historians. The article looks at the implications inherent in the broad shift to global online genealogy and family history. The argument i…
Invitation to historians
This introduction to my work seeks to account for the kind of history that I practice, and outline exactly why I think particular modes of investigation, types of historiographical practice and iterations of historical engagement will provide us with new insight into the way in which history works in popular culture. I discuss the formation of what I term ‘historical sensibility’ and look at several key issues: anachronism; desire; commodity; aut…
Public and Popular History
I am not a trained historian. I improvise.’ Jeremy Deller interviewed by Jerome de Groot
Jeremy Deller is one of the most important – and influential – British artists working today. His work encompasses social memory, folk art, re-enactment, situationist polemic and a dedicated interest in art as a social form of political engagement. This interview introduces his work and explores some of his key ideas. He is particularly interesting to those working in the field of history for his continuing engagement with memory, re-enactment, t…
‘Welcome to Babylon’
The authors of Perfect Occurences, an army newsbook, chose in early May 1645 to open their account of the week with a description of a 'May- game; but such a one as is not usuall, and deserves to be taken notice of, and it is an action of Warre too'.1 The newsbook recounted the problem facing Colonel Blunt when trying to control the country people of Kent, who 'love old customes' and continue to 'do every yeer what they have done in others before…
Perpetually dividing and suturing the past and present’
This piece considers the relationship between popular culture and the history of nation with particular reference to American television of the past decade or so (see also Landsberg 2010. Waking the Deadwood of history: Listening, language, and the 'aural visceral'. Rethinking History 14: 531-49), and focuses its attentions (after some introductory questions) on Mad Men. The meditation herein arises from simple questions that might even be consid…
Affect and empathy
Consuming History
Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional n…
Empathy and enfranchisement
This article considers the media phenomenon of 'history' over the past decade. In particular I am interested in the complex types of historical engagement available, and what these various models of 'experience' suggest for consumption and understanding of the past. Analysing re-enactment, 'reality' history TV and first-person shooter (FPS) computer games, I suggest that engagement with the discourse of 'history' in popular culture is a complicat…
Chorographia , Newcastle and Royalist Identity in the Late 1640s
Chorography. 1. The art or practice of describing, or of delineating on a map or chart, particular regions, or districts; as distinguished from geography, taken as dealing with the earth in general, and (less distinctly) from topography, which deals with particular places, as towns, etc. (OED)Now of late that princely fabrick demolished and layd levell with the ground.1For followers of the King during the late 1640s, the world was an extremely di…
Consuming History
Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional n…
Affect and empathy
Empathy and enfranchisement
This article considers the media phenomenon of 'history' over the past decade. In particular I am interested in the complex types of historical engagement available, and what these various models of 'experience' suggest for consumption and understanding of the past. Analysing re-enactment, 'reality' history TV and first-person shooter (FPS) computer games, I suggest that engagement with the discourse of 'history' in popular culture is a complicat…
Ancestry.com and the Evolving Nature of Historical Information Companies
This study of the genealogy and biotech company Ancestry analyzes the ways in which the organization has evolved over the past few years. Ancestry is difficult to categorize as a corporate entity. The company trades in servicing both “traditional” types of history (genealogical records) and, more recently, biotech-based investigation through the use of DNA sequencing. Ancestry is highly influential in the way that millions of people around the wo…
International Federation for Public History Plenary Address
This article argues for the importance of genealogy and family history to contemporary understanding and experience of the past. Through looking at various ways that genealogy might be undertaken and imagined, the article argues that this important area needs to be further conceptualized and studied by public historians. The article looks at the implications inherent in the broad shift to global online genealogy and family history. The argument i…
Perpetually dividing and suturing the past and present’
This piece considers the relationship between popular culture and the history of nation with particular reference to American television of the past decade or so (see also Landsberg 2010. Waking the Deadwood of history: Listening, language, and the 'aural visceral'. Rethinking History 14: 531-49), and focuses its attentions (after some introductory questions) on Mad Men. The meditation herein arises from simple questions that might even be consid…
Things Are Coming Out That Are Questionable, We Never Knew About
Family history is undertaken by millions around the world seeking to understand their past. This practice is understudied, and we need to work hard to understand how it works. Over the past decade, family history has been transformed through the use of DNA sequencing to enable genetic genealogy. Through analyzing data generated in a number of focus groups with family historians, this article contributes to our understanding of family history as a…
I don’t even trust now what I read in history books’
Family historians are a large and often neglected group of historical researchers. They have a strongly articulated sense of their practice, and a well-developed set of methodologies and research apparatuses. They mostly work on their own, or in partnership with other family members, and are associated with public libraries, archives and local historical societies. They are a community who are situated outside the academy, often marginalised by t…
Fugitives, fields, pubs and trees
This article considers the trope of the Royal Oak across several centuries of history. The article argues that the events following Charles Stuart’s defeat at Worcester in 1651 have become a central part of the memory of the period and the construction of the “Cavalier”. In considering the “afterlife” of this event, the article looks at the way that cultural memory is constructed, in particular, and makes some suggestions about models of memory, …
Invitation to historians
This introduction to my work seeks to account for the kind of history that I practice, and outline exactly why I think particular modes of investigation, types of historiographical practice and iterations of historical engagement will provide us with new insight into the way in which history works in popular culture. I discuss the formation of what I term ‘historical sensibility’ and look at several key issues: anachronism; desire; commodity; aut…
Chorographia , Newcastle and Royalist Identity in the Late 1640s
Chorography. 1. The art or practice of describing, or of delineating on a map or chart, particular regions, or districts; as distinguished from geography, taken as dealing with the earth in general, and (less distinctly) from topography, which deals with particular places, as towns, etc. (OED)Now of late that princely fabrick demolished and layd levell with the ground.1For followers of the King during the late 1640s, the world was an extremely di…
Empathy and enfranchisement
This article considers the media phenomenon of 'history' over the past decade. In particular I am interested in the complex types of historical engagement available, and what these various models of 'experience' suggest for consumption and understanding of the past. Analysing re-enactment, 'reality' history TV and first-person shooter (FPS) computer games, I suggest that engagement with the discourse of 'history' in popular culture is a complicat…
Consuming History
Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional n…
‘Welcome to Babylon’
The authors of Perfect Occurences, an army newsbook, chose in early May 1645 to open their account of the week with a description of a 'May- game; but such a one as is not usuall, and deserves to be taken notice of, and it is an action of Warre too'.1 The newsbook recounted the problem facing Colonel Blunt when trying to control the country people of Kent, who 'love old customes' and continue to 'do every yeer what they have done in others before…
Perpetually dividing and suturing the past and present’
This piece considers the relationship between popular culture and the history of nation with particular reference to American television of the past decade or so (see also Landsberg 2010. Waking the Deadwood of history: Listening, language, and the 'aural visceral'. Rethinking History 14: 531-49), and focuses its attentions (after some introductory questions) on Mad Men. The meditation herein arises from simple questions that might even be consid…
Affect and empathy
I am not a trained historian. I improvise.’ Jeremy Deller interviewed by Jerome de Groot
Jeremy Deller is one of the most important – and influential – British artists working today. His work encompasses social memory, folk art, re-enactment, situationist polemic and a dedicated interest in art as a social form of political engagement. This interview introduces his work and explores some of his key ideas. He is particularly interesting to those working in the field of history for his continuing engagement with memory, re-enactment, t…
Public and Popular History
Invitation to historians
This introduction to my work seeks to account for the kind of history that I practice, and outline exactly why I think particular modes of investigation, types of historiographical practice and iterations of historical engagement will provide us with new insight into the way in which history works in popular culture. I discuss the formation of what I term ‘historical sensibility’ and look at several key issues: anachronism; desire; commodity; aut…
Remaking History
Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered. Jerome de Groot uses examples from contemporary popular cultur…
International Federation for Public History Plenary Address
This article argues for the importance of genealogy and family history to contemporary understanding and experience of the past. Through looking at various ways that genealogy might be undertaken and imagined, the article argues that this important area needs to be further conceptualized and studied by public historians. The article looks at the implications inherent in the broad shift to global online genealogy and family history. The argument i…
Consuming History
Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. In this second edition, Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and how new technologi…
Fugitives, fields, pubs and trees
This article considers the trope of the Royal Oak across several centuries of history. The article argues that the events following Charles Stuart’s defeat at Worcester in 1651 have become a central part of the memory of the period and the construction of the “Cavalier”. In considering the “afterlife” of this event, the article looks at the way that cultural memory is constructed, in particular, and makes some suggestions about models of memory, …
History, pastness and the postgenomic imaginary
This article considers the ways that poets, rappers and artists including Kendrick Lamar, Residente, Zaffar Kunial, Michael Symons Roberts, Hannah Sullivan and Marc Quinn have responded to the biomedical postgenomic gaze and the ways in which they have dissented or built on this seemingly new way of conceiving of the human. These poets and rappers consider what it means to imagine in a postgenomic way and the possible implications of this for wri…
Ancestry.com and the Evolving Nature of Historical Information Companies
This study of the genealogy and biotech company Ancestry analyzes the ways in which the organization has evolved over the past few years. Ancestry is difficult to categorize as a corporate entity. The company trades in servicing both “traditional” types of history (genealogical records) and, more recently, biotech-based investigation through the use of DNA sequencing. Ancestry is highly influential in the way that millions of people around the wo…
Things Are Coming Out That Are Questionable, We Never Knew About
Family history is undertaken by millions around the world seeking to understand their past. This practice is understudied, and we need to work hard to understand how it works. Over the past decade, family history has been transformed through the use of DNA sequencing to enable genetic genealogy. Through analyzing data generated in a number of focus groups with family historians, this article contributes to our understanding of family history as a…
I don’t even trust now what I read in history books’
Family historians are a large and often neglected group of historical researchers. They have a strongly articulated sense of their practice, and a well-developed set of methodologies and research apparatuses. They mostly work on their own, or in partnership with other family members, and are associated with public libraries, archives and local historical societies. They are a community who are situated outside the academy, often marginalised by t…
Sarah Abel
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