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 | 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,...