by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? An apparently straightforward question that’s actually far from it – unpacking the position ‘not talking to government’ gets us started, writes Dr Alix Green, reader in history at the University of Essex. The simplest argument for...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Cambridge academic Professor Simon Szreter on two decades of the pioneering network for historians Why would professional historians not want their knowledge and expertise to be understood by policymakers, politicians and advisers? Why would any of the latter want to...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Courses and learning to compress complex stories are promising aids to communication for government and historians, writes Professor Patrick Salmon. How close should academic historians get to government? ‘Very close indeed,’ their universities would probably say,...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | History & Classics, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? Professor of British and Commonwealth history, Philip Murphy, introduces the tensions underlying the relationship between historians and politicians. As an academic discipline, history can be thought of as something between a game...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Should historians talk to government? It’s tempting to turn this question around and ask instead whether government should talk to historians, writes Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley. Priya Satia, in her brilliant Time’s Monster, has made a compelling case that governments...
