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Chris Johnston discusses community attachment to place in excerpts from ‘What is Social Value?’
Excerpts from David Lowenthal’s discussion of preservation and its increasing prominence in ‘The Past is a Foreign Country’.
Paula Hamilton discusses the relationship between memory and history in these excerpts from ‘The Knife Edge: Debates about Memory and History’. Read more about Hamilton’s views on remembering and recording the past in ‘Using Oral Histories’.
Excerpts from Helen Armstrong’s journal article – ‘Mapping Migrant Memories: crossing cultural borders’ – focusing on oral history approaches to identifying places valued by migrant groups.
Maria Geracitano gives a cultural perspective on heritage for the ‘ Teaching Heritage’ website.
Tony McAvoy gives a cultural perspective on heritage for the ‘ Teaching Heritage’ website.
Peter Watts gives a cultural perspective on heritage for the ‘ Teaching Heritage’ website.
Excerpts from Denis Byrne’s journal article – ‘The Archaeology of Disaster’ – examining the ways archaeological traces can be obscured from public consciousness.
Excerpts from Valda Rigg’s journal article – ‘Curators of the Colonial Idea: the museum and exhibition as agents of bourgeois ideology in nineteenth century New South Wales’ – looking at the role of the Australian Museum and the Sydney International Exhibition in promoting colonial ideology.
Excerpts from Alexander Trapeznik’s journal article – ‘Heritage and Public History in New Zealand’ – focusing on the connections between history and heritage and the importance of material culture in recording the past.
Excerpt from Max Bourke’s presentation at the Bush Futures? Forum, a component of the ‘Bush Lives: Bush Futures’ exhibition that began a three-year tour of regional NSW in January 1999.

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