Hilda Kean (born August 1949) is a British historian who specialises in

public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öf ...

and

cultural history Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history ...

, and in particular the cultural history of animals. She is former Dean and Director of Public History at

Ruskin College Ruskin College, originally known as Ruskin Hall, Oxford, is a higher education institution and part of the University of West London, in Oxford, England. It is not a Colleges of the University of Oxford, college of Oxford University. Named ...

, Oxford, and an Honorary Research Fellow there. Kean is a visiting professor of History at the

University of Greenwich The University of Greenwich is a public university located in London and Kent, United Kingdom. Previous names include Woolwich Polytechnic and Thames Polytechnic. The university's main campus is at the Old Royal Naval College, which along wi ...

and an adjunct professor at the Centre for Australian Public History at the

University of Technology Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1988, though its origins as a Institute of technology, ...

. She is the author of a number of books, including ''Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800'' (1998), and ''People and Their Pasts: Public History Today'' (2009, with Paul Ashton).

Works

;Books * (2017) '' The Great Cat and Dog Massacre'' * (2013) ''Reader in Public History'', Routledge, ed with Paul Martin * (2009) ''People and their Pasts: Public History Today'', Palgrave Macmillan (ed with Paul Ashton) * (2004) ''London Stories: Personal Lives, Public Histories'', Rivers Oram Press * (2000) ''Seeing History: Public History in Britain Now'', Francis Boutle, ed with Paul Martin, Sally J. Morgan * (1999) ''Ruskin College: Contesting Knowledge, Dissenting Politics'', Lawrence and Wishart, ed with Geoff Andrews, Jane Thompson * (1998) ''Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800'', Reaktion Books * (1990) ''Deeds not Words: The Lives of Suffragette Teachers'', Pluto Press * (1990) ''Challenging the State? The Socialist and Feminist Educational Experience'', Falmer ;Selected papers * (2011) "Commemorating Animals: Glorifying Humans? Remembering and Forgetting animals in War Memorials," eds Maggie Andrews, Charles Bagot–Jewitt, Nigel Hunt, Lest we Forget. Remembrance and Commemoration, History Press, pp. 60–70 * (2011) "English Labour movement festivals and the past: commemorating defeat and creating martyrs," in eds

Laurajane Smith Laurajane Smith (born 1962) is a Heritage and Museum Studies scholar. Among Smith's publications that examine the politics of heritage, she edited the book ''Uses of Heritage.'' She published the book ''Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at ...

, Gary Campbell & Paul Shackel, Cultural Heritage and the Working Class Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes, Routledge * (2011) "Traces and Representations: Animal Pasts in London's present," The London Journal * (2010) "People, Historians and Public History: De -mystifying the Process of History Making," Public Historian, vol. 32, no. 3, August, pp. 25–38 * (2009) "Balto, the Alaskan dog and his statue in New York’s Central Park : animal representation and national heritage," International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 413–430 * (2008) "Personal and Public Histories: issues in the presentation of the past," in eds Brian Graham and Peter Howard, The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, Ashgate, pp. 55–69 * (2007) "The moment of Greyfriars Bobby: the changing cultural position of animals 1800 – 1920," in ed Kathleen Kete, A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire 1800 – 1920, vol. 5, Berg, pp. 25–46 * (2005) "Public History & Popular Memory. Issues in the commemoration of the British militant suffrage movement," '' Women’s History Review'', vol. 14 nos. 3 & 4, pp. 581–604 * (2004) "Public history and Raphael Samuel: a forgotten radical pedagogy?" Public History Review vol. 11, Professional Historians Association, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 51–62 * (2003) "An exploration of the sculptures of Greyfriars Bobby, Edinburgh, Scotland and the old brown dog in Battersea, South London, England, Society and Animals, Journal of Human-Animal Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, 2003, pp. 353-73. * (2003) "Making History in Bethnal Green: different stories of nineteenth century silk weavers," with Bruce Wheeler, History Workshop Journal, no. 56.

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"Dr Hilda Kean on BBC 1: The One Show"
, Ruskin College, 18 August 2010. 1949 births Living people 20th-century British historians 21st-century British historians Academics of Ruskin College Academics of the University of Greenwich British animal rights scholars British animal welfare scholars Historians of animal rights Cultural history of the United Kingdom Academic staff of the University of Technology Sydney {{UK-activist-stub