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‘History and Policy’ and the communication challenge

‘History and Policy’ and the communication challenge

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...
The trust and shifting sands between historians and government

The trust and shifting sands between historians and government

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,...
History and the state: supporting institutional memory or challenging national myths?

History and the state: supporting institutional memory or challenging national myths?

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...
How politicians only listen to what they want to hear

How politicians only listen to what they want to hear

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...
Rehumanising scholarship

Rehumanising scholarship

by Talking Humanities | Nov 12, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Research & Resources

Dr Farhan Samanani, an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, tests himself in a very public way – by working through a commercial publisher This isn’t about me – this is about the value of knowledge in a hurting...
An earlier Ireland revealed

An earlier Ireland revealed

by Talking Humanities | Jul 15, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources

Ireland has been in the press a lot in connection with Brexit, trade and borders. The July feature of the month from Senate House Library is ‘L’Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse’, a former bestselling monograph about an earlier Ireland which...
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