Challenging history in the museum : international perspectives / edited by Jenny Kidd, Sam Cairns, Alex Drago, Amy Ryall, Miranda Stearn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : challenging history in the museum / Jenny Kidd -- The emotional museum : the case of National Museums Liverpool / David Fleming -- Telling hard truths and the process of decolonising indigenous representations in Canadian museums / Bryony Onciul -- Ripples in the pebble pool : dark narrative as maxim, metaphor and memorial / Alix H.J. Powers-Jones -- Making them laugh, making them cry : theatre's role in challenging history / Judith Bryan -- The Stiftelsen Arkivet experience : a Second World War Gestapo regional headquarters in Norway / Bjørn Tore Rosendahl and Ingvild Ruhaven -- Challenging ourselves : uncomfortable histories and current museum practices / Bernadette Lynch -- Contemporary challenges : artist interventions in museums and galleries dealing with challenging histories / Miranda Stearn -- Coffee and cigarettes : on trust-building processes between the Norwegian government and the Romani Traveller community / Åshild Andrea Brekke -- Fieldnotes from a challenging history / David Gunn and Victoria Ward -- Vicissitudes of representation : remembering and forgetting / Juliet Steyn -- Realms of memory and the recovery of the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship (1936-2012) / Mikel Errazkin Agirrezabala and Rosa Martínez Rodríguez -- 'Unseen women, stories from Armagh Gaol' : exhibiting contrasting memories of a contested space / Jolene Mairs Dyer -- Borders of belonging : the UK Border Agency Museum as a nation-building site / Claire Sutherland -- Perspectives on the Far East : understanding war through veterans' eyes / Amy Ryall -- Controversies around the teaching of Brazilian 'black history' / Verena Alberti -- 'To kill a king?' : interpreting the execution of a monarch / Amanda Shamoon -- Frames of meaning : young people, historical consciousness and challenging history at museums and historic sites / Ceri Jones -- Challenging histories, challenging memorialisation : the Holocaust / Judith Vandervelde.