- Title
- Contested memories of Eureka : Museum Interpretations of the Eureka Stockade
- Creator
- Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37988
- Identifier
- vital:103
- Identifier
- http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=803216584964866;res=IELHSS
- Identifier
- ISSN:0023-6942
- Abstract
- The significance of the Eureka Stockade has been a lively topic of discussion since the event occurred in 1854. This paper focuses on its public interpretation in Ballarat, as a case study of the politics of memory. Its central question is how to interpret a contested political event so that people with ownership of conflicting versions of the story can all be accommodated? The paper analyses the development of the Eureka Stockade Centre in Ballarat, and compares this public interpretation to other attempts to present the story, notably at Sovereign Hill. It concludes that only by embracing the contests can the interpretation be successful.; C1
- Publisher
- University of Sydney Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
- Relation
- Labour History Vol. 58, no. (2003), p. 29-46
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies; Eureka Stockade; Ballarat; Sovereign Hill
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