What is Public History? Lizzy Spencer
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Public History is a fast-growing field, with postgraduate courses and research centres expanding across the globe. But just what do we mean by Public History? What does it mean to be a public historian? Which ‘publics’ are we talking about?
Join Director of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) Lizzy Spencer for an introduction to the field of Public History, its development, and the key questions which face public historians today. Lizzy will also share examples from the work of IPUP and its postgraduate students.
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About the speaker
Dr Lizzy Spencer is a Lecturer in Eighteenth Century and Public History in the Department of History at the University of York. She is the current Director of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP). Lizzy is the author of Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England (Boydell & Brewer, 2024) and has published broadly on gender, clothing, and material culture. She is also currently leading the York strand of the project ‘Making History Months Count: Embedding Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month in the Public History Calendar’.
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