Hilary Orange is the Programme Director for heritage studies at Swansea University and co-Director of the University’s heritage research group CHART. Her research focuses on the ways in which industrial heritage and historical knowledge are produced by grassroots and community groups and, secondly,  on the memorialization of rock and pop music. She is part of the transnational research consortium – DePOT (Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time) led by Concordia University -, has an academic background in public and contemporary archaeologies and a professional background of work in the commercial and museum sectors.

Selected Publications:

Louise Miskell, Hilary Orange, and Gemma Almond-Brown, “Art as Industrial Heritage: Deindustrialisation and Public Sculpture in Britain’s Steel-Making Regions, 1976–2020,” Social History (London) 49, no. 4 (2024): 510–42, https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2389627. Available Open Access Art as industrial heritage: deindustrialisation and public sculpture in Britain’s steel-making region

Hilary Orange, ed., Reanimating Industrial Spaces: Conducting Memory Work in Post-Industrial Societies (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2015).

Hilary Orange and Paul Graves-Brown, “‘My Death Waits There among the Flowers’: Popular Music Shrines in London as Memory and Remembrance,” in The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place, ed. Sarah de Nardi, Hilary Orange, Steven High and Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto (London: Routledge, 2019), 345–356.