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.
Building Stories: A Historical Portrait of your Home
John is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Building Stories, an enterprise where historians and artists collaborate to create bespoke historical portraits for any residential address in the UK.
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The Museum of Everyday Life
John is the Director of the Museum of Everyday Life; an online archive and museum working with the Lewisham Local History Society. The Museum engages with an extraordinary collection of historical objects and makes the digitally accessible for everyone.
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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.
Windrush: Arrival 1948
Winner: Warden’s Public Engagement Award for Civic Engagement (2020)
John conceived this award-winning project in collaboration with Will Cenci. Based on a new transcription of the Windrush passenger list, 1,027 individual landing cards representing each passenger were created and used in numerous outputs.
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Remembering the Battle of Lewisham
Winner: Warden’s 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.
The Everyday Heroes of Postman’s Park
Finalist in the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement’s ‘Engage’ Competition (2014)
John initiated this project to increase public knowledge and understanding about the Watts Memorial and those commemorated on it. The centrepiece was an innovative digital app designed to deliver information to mobile devices.
