History, memory and public life : the past in the present / edited by Anna Maerker, Simon Sleight and Adam Sutcliffe.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction: Memory, public life and the work of the historian / Adam Sutcliffe, Anna Maerker and Simon Sleight -- Part I: Approaches to history and memory. 1: historical scholarship and public memory in Britain : a case of oil and water? / John Tosh ; 2: Challenge or opportunity? Postcolonialism and the historian / toby green ; 3: sites of memory / keir reeves ; 4: race, migration and national origins / peter heather ; 5: mobility, migration and modern memory / Eureka Henrich ; 6: Memory and the city / Simon Sleight 7: Hagiography and biography : narratives of 'great men of science' / Anna Maerker -- Part II: Difficult pasts. 8: Remembering Anzac : Australia and World War I / Frank Bongiorno ; 9: Dealing with the past : history, memory and the Northern Ireland troubles / Ian McBride ; 10: Truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa / Tom Lodge ; 11: History and memory in the American South / W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; 12: The politics of Holocaust memory / Adam Sutcliffe ; 13: LGBT histories and the politics of identity / Laura Gowing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.