Writing The History of Memory

The volume asks how objective history writing can be, given the part that memory plays in it. It is part of the Writing History series, and its contributors are historians working across several countries.

Public history is treated through museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches in these essays. Coverage runs from the ancient world to the present, and takes in oral history as well as generational and collective memory. Two detailed case studies look at Holocaust memorialisation and at the memory of Communism.

Readers of historiography, public history and memory studies will find it a focused introduction. The catalogue names Stefan Berger and Bill Niven as the authors.