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Democratisation of knowledge, or just dissemination? Research (funding) and...
Hot Property, Cool Storage, Grey Literature – Public History Weekly – BlogJournal for History and Civics Education. An interesting discussion starting on Public History Weekly on the (unmet?) promises...
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Call for comments: why is public history as it is where you are?
Last year, Arnita Jones and I met at possibly the finest scone cafe in the world (or at least Canada) to discuss the first public history roundtable to be held at an International Congress of the...
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Against authenticity?
Peter York, writing in the Guardian, recently offered a pithy deconstruction of ‘authenticity’ as a con: a vacuous term that ‘implies truthfulness with no uncomfortable requirement for facts’. I used...
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Taking ownership of ‘transferable’ skills?
One thing I’ve noticed in working on my book* is that blogging work has quickly fallen down the agenda. Time is a major factor, but it’s not the only one. The problem has also switching registers...
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The Humanities, the public intellectual and human flourishing | Arts and...
‘Something needs to be done – urgently. We are agreed – right? But what?‘ stands the heading introducing a recent issue of the journal Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. We are given a peak at...
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Dismantling the professions? Rethinking expertise
A press release on a book that’s just come out gave me pause for thought: The future of the professions: how technology will transform the work of human experts. OK, so press releases aren’t the best...
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