27 - 30 June 2024
No public historian has made more impact on the commemorative decade than former National Archives curator Catriona Crowe, shepherd of the digitisation of the 1901 and 1911 censuses, without which the decade would have had far less meaning. In this talk she looks back at how we managed to commemorate (and occasionally came close to sabotaging) the centenary of the revolutionary decade. There will be plaudits … and a few brickbats.
