Historical Sources Regarding History Education

On the Presences and Absences of Pasts

Arthur Chapman • Public History Weekly • 2019

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Database

Levels and forms of education

Museum Memorials and Exhibitions

Other Levels and Forms of Education

Resource type

Conceptual or themathic publications

Historic approaches concerned

Cultural History

Global History

Local History

Social History

Historic period

17th Century

16th Century

18th Century

Countries or areas concerned

United Kingdom, Africa, Europe

Languages

English, German

Description

Reflecting on the etymology of certain words such as "institution", "destitution", and "restitution", Arthur Chapman applies this to discussions on historical culture, and the changing meaning behind historical events and figures, and the places and statues that represent their memory. Some figures are "instituted" by being memorialised positively through statues, and others are "destituted" by having their status revised in light of changing societal perceptions, for example the Bristol slave trader Edward Colston.

Keywords

Etymology

historical culture

memory

statue

historical thinking

institution

restitution

destitution