This module will explore how the past is transmitted and constructed in numerous public contexts, allowing students to compare contemporary presentations with those from a previous era. We will examine the many different genres and spaces through which history is, and has been, conveyed, from the museum, to the documentary, to the war memorial, school textbook, Hollywood epic and even computer game. The workshop aspect of this module will enable students to bring the theoretical understanding they draw from their readings into regular seminar discussions with the University's own public history practitioners, who will describe and answer questions about their past and current projects. Students will discover how scholarly research is made accessible to a wider audience; the way medium and audience interact to shape what kind of history is presented; the role of history, memory and myth in the creation of public identities; and the political contests that 'applied' history often generates. Students will also be given the opportunity to themselves create, participate in, and/or critique a piece of public history as part of their coursework assessment.