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...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
In the era of ‘fake news’, history needs a good grounding by its publics, writes Professor Suzannah Lipscomb ‘Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.’ George Orwell, 1984 Bad history is the preserve of the charlatan....
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics
By Ludmilla Jordanova, emeritus professor of history and visual culture at Durham University One of the costs of professionalisation is the erection of boundaries. Sometimes these are necessarily rigid – everyone knows something about health, some people know a great...
