Edited by Malcolm Allbrook and Sophie Scott-Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the confluence of professional historians with family historians, their common causes and conversations. It brings together leading and emerging Australian and New Zealand scholars to consider the relationship between family history and the discipline of history, and the potential of family history to extend the scope of historical inquiry, even to revitalise the discipline. In Anglo-Western culture, the roots of the discipline\u2019s professionalisation lay in efforts to reconstruct history as objective knowledge, to extend its subject matter and to enlarge the scale of historical enquiry. Family history, almost by definition, is often inescapably personal and localised. How, then, have historians responded to this resurgence of interest in the personal and the local, and how has it influenced the thought and practice of historical enquiry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Part I: Family, History, Historians<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Family, History, Historians<\/p>\n\n\n\n Malcolm Allbrook and Sophie Scott-Brown<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Family Life and the Creation of Conscience: The Macarthurs, 1780\u20131860<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alan Atkinson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. The Extended Ken of Kin: A National Family History<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicholas Dean Brodie<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. The Australian Dictionary of Biography <\/em>and Family History<\/p>\n\n\n\n Melanie Nolan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Writing Family, Writing Nation in 1988: Inside the National Library of Australia\u2019s Self-Published Family History Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ashley Barnwell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Part II: Critical Historiography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Private Lives, Public History: Contemplating Intimate and Collective Historical Consciousness in Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n