Dethroning historical reputations
Universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19935570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H S Jones (0000-0001-5061-2513), John Shakeshaft, Victoria Harrison, Laura N K Van Broekhoven, Tiffany Jenkins, Nicholas Draper, Anna Eavis, Howard Spencer, Brian Young (0000-0001-7292-7938) |
| Editors | Jill Pellew, Lawrence Goldman |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Dethroning historical reputations (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of London Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14296/718.9781909646834 |
| OpenAlex | W2872494625 |
| Open Library | OL27805678M |
| ISBN | 9781909646834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unacceptable? How can we reconcile the views of the past with those of the present? This essays in this book, from a conference at the Institute of Historical Research, examine these issues from different perspectives
Archaeology · Art history · Honour · Ideology · Library science · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Statue · Subject (documents) · Classics · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Educational benefactors · Finance · Historiography · Memorials · Monuments · Moral and ethical aspects · Political aspects · Universities and colleges
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Elite schools and slavery in the UK - capital, violence and extractivism
Moral judgment in history education and historical positionality as a moral evaluator
Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18
Against the “Likewise” and toward the “Otherwise”
Museums in Universities
Restitution vs. Retention
Measuring poverty in late 1960s Britain
Datos digitales en arqueología y comunidades indígenas
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |