A one-day symposium organised by The Centre for Applied History and the Department of English, Macquarie University, Sydney on Friday, 7 September 2018 “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” This famous opening sentence from L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between (1953) provokes questions of how the “pastness” of the past is remembered, recuperated and represented, especially in this postmodern age where the