This article takes the author's recent experiences of working with Amina Cachalia on her memoirs as a starting point for engaging with the knotty problems of the autobiographical genre, especially in its relationship with more orthodox forms of history writing. An examination of South African women's autobiographies and memoirs suggests the existence of different k...

This article is a reflection of the trajectory of heritage or public history since the path breaking History Workshop conference titled ‘Myths, Monuments, Museums: New Premises?’ The article briefly revisits some of the arguments made at the 1992 conference, particularly those that related to the fate of heritage representations crafted during apartheid. The Voortr...

The title of this article is inspired by Peter Novick's injunction in his The Holocaust and Collective Memory (2001) to allow for encounters with the past in all its 'messiness', as a way of helping school learners to develop life-long habits of autonomous thinking, reasoning and working both systematically and imaginatively through evidence that might assist them ...

The title of this article is inspired by Peter Novick's injunction in his The Holocaust and Collective Memory (2001) to allow for encounters with the past in all its 'messiness', as a way of helping school learners to develop life-long habits of autonomous thinking, reasoning and working both systematically and imaginatively through evidence that might assist them ...