Hilda Kean | |
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| Born | August 1949 (age 75) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Public history, cultural history, human–animal studies |
| Institutions | |
| Website | hildakean |
Hilda Kean (born August 1949)[1] is a British historian who specialises in public and cultural history, and in particular the cultural history of animals.[2] She is former Dean and Director of Public History at Ruskin College, Oxford, and an Honorary Research Fellow there.[2] Kean is a visiting professor of History at the University of Greenwich and an adjunct professor at the Centre for Australian Public History at the University of Technology Sydney.[3]
She is the author of a number of books, including Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800 (1998), and People and Their Pasts: Public History Today (2009, with Paul Ashton).[2]