Silke Arnold-de Simine is Senior Lecturer in Memory, Museum and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and co-organiser of the Cultural Memory Research Series at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, UK. Joanne Leal is Head of the Department of Cultures and Languages and the Programme Director of the MA in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Introduction Silke Arnold- de Simine and Joanne Leal1. That Other Woman: the woman who accompanied the Cold War Tourist to Paris Martha Langford2. Memory, subjectivity and maternal histories in Un'Ora Sola Ti Vorrei (2005), Histoire d'un Secret (2003) and On the Border (2012) Lizzie Thynne3. Soviet heroes and Jewish victims: One family's memories of World War II Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko4. Visual meditations: An island in time - (re)interpreting family albums and oral histories Suze Adams5. Performing familial memory in Against Sally Waterman6. In and out of focus: Visualising loss through the family album Jacqueline Butler7. The (re)constructed self in the safe space of the family photograph: Chino Otsuka's Imagine finding me (2005) Deborah Schultz8. A place for memory: Family photo collections, social media and the imaginative reconstruction of the working class neighbourhood Richard Lowell MacDonald9. Wanted - new custodians for family photographs: Vernacular photographs on eBay and the album as artwork Nicky Bird10. Dislocating memory: Family photographs in story-centred museums Silke Arnold-de SimineBibliographyIndex