- Title
- (Re)discovering the familial past and its impact on historical consciousness
- Creator
- Shaw, Emma L.; Donnelly, Debra J.
- Relation
- Genealogy Vol. 5, Issue 4, no. 102
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5040102
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Family history has become a significant contributor to public and social histories exploring and (re)discovering the micro narratives of the past. Due to the growing democratisation of digital access to documents and the proliferation of family history media platforms, family history is now challenging traditional custodianship of the past. Family history research has moved beyond the realms of archives, libraries and community-based history societies to occupy an important space in the public domain. This paper reports on some of the findings of a recent study into the historical thinking and research practices of Australian family historians. Using a case study methodology, it examines the proposition that researching family history has major impacts on historical understanding and consciousness using the analytic frameworks of Jorn Rüsen’s Disciplinary Matrix and his Typology of Historical Consciousness. This research not only proposes these major impacts but argues that some family historians are shifting the historical landscape through the dissemination of their research for public consumption beyond traditional family history audiences.
- Subject
- historical consciousness; family history research; family historians; temporal orientation; case study
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444098
- Identifier
- uon:42199
- Identifier
- ISSN:2313-5778
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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