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Thailand’s Museum of Popular History and a Quest to Preserve the “Political Lives” of Ordinary Citizens

The foot print fabric that led to the birth of the Museum of Popular History Recent statistics estimate that there are about 1,600 Museums in Thailand, with most focused on natural history, science and technology, art history and culture. While some museums tell the...

Workshop: Documenting and Disseminating – Histories of Labour and Social History in Southeast Asia

The region is currently witnessing a flowering of new cultural organisations devoted to engaging the public with history that challenges official historical narratives and recovers marginalised histories. This includes the collection of oral histories and the...

WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Pusat Sejarah Rakyat Webinar #1 – Archiving Mo(ve)ments: Archival Praxis as Social Movements

Summary by: Jaymani Sevanathan Archiving Mo(ve)ments: Archival Praxis as Social Movements was the theme of a webinar held on 19 June 2025 by Pusat Sejarah Rakyat (PSR), an independent historical initiative focusing on the people’s history of Malaysia and Singapore....

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Thailand’s Museum of Popular History and a Quest to Preserve the “Political Lives” of Ordinary Citizens

Workshop: Documenting and Disseminating – Histories of Labour and Social History in Southeast Asia

WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Pusat Sejarah Rakyat Webinar #1 – Archiving Mo(ve)ments: Archival Praxis as Social Movements

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