Dr John Price is an award-winning practitioner of Public History and Applied History, with Public and Community Engagement absolutely central to his work.
John has undertaken a number of high-profile projects which have greatly impacted and increased public knowledge and understanding of key events in history.
If you would like to collaborate on or commission a history or heritage project, please Contact John to discuss your ideas.
The Museum of Everyday Life
John is the Director of the Museum of Everyday Life; an online archive and museum working with the Museum Collection of the Lewisham Local History Society. The Museum engages with an extraordinary collection of historical objects, images, and ephemera, and has begun to make it digitally and informatively accessible for everyone. It brings histories of the everyday to life, informing and educating people about the past in innovative and entertaining ways.
If you would like to commission an exhibition or other output based upon the museum collections, please Contact John to discuss your requirements.
In Living Memory: A People’s History of Postwar Lewisham
Finalist in the London Higher Awards, London Creative Arts Initiative of the Year (2024)
John was the Academic Lead for In Living Memory, which celebrated Lewisham’s diversity and heritage for London Borough of Culture 2022. In Living Memory empowered Lewisham’s communities to tell their own stories, presenting them through traditional means as well as artistic and cultural activities and events. The In Living Memory projects uncovered a range of exciting histories that are for, about, and by the people of Lewisham. People’s History is an inclusive, democratic, and empowering enterprise, and these projects produced histories that are as diverse and inspirational as Lewisham itself.
Windrush: Arrival 1948
Winner of the Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Award for Civic Engagement (2020)
John conceived and curated this award-winning project in collaboration with Will Cenci. Based on a new transcription of the Windrush passenger list held at The National Archives, 1,027 individual landing cards representing each passenger who arrived on the Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948 were created. The reimagined and recreated landing cards were used in numerous exhibitions and other outputs with various partners.
If you would like to commission an exhibition or other output based upon the Windrush landing cards, please contact John to discuss your requirements.
Remembering the Battle of Lewisham
Winner of the Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Award for Community Engagement (2018)
To mark the 40th anniversary of the events of 13 August 1977, John embarked on a range of public engagement activities to initiate inclusive dialogues with different publics on how the ‘Battle of Lewisham’ should be remembered and its contemporary relevance. The project culminated in the unveiling of a permanent monument to the ‘Battle of Lewisham’ and a community festival hosted at the Albany in Deptford. Other activities including art workshops, a public consultation, live music, poetry, exhibitions of contemporary art and photography, screenings, panel discussions, and history walks.
The Everyday Heroes of Postman’s Park
Finalist in the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement’s ‘Engage’ Competition (2014)
As the leading expert on the Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman’s Park, John initiated this project to increase public knowledge and understanding about the Memorial and those commemorated on it. Based upon extensive research undertaken over many years, the centrepiece of the project was an innovative digital app designed to deliver information to mobile devices. The project also included events, talks, and other activities to raise awareness. Although the app is no longer available, John has utilised the data underpinning it to create other online resources, notably on Historypin and Placecloud.
