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Post-Brexit, we must make the case for scholarship, not just science…
The vast majority of UK academics supported Remain. The free movement of ideas and people is vital to what we do. EU colleagues have brought expertise, students fresh perspectives, and, of course,...
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History, Policy and Public Purpose Historians and Historical Thinking in...
Reblogging here my post from History and Policy #HistoriansBooks section – and please see details of a mini symposium and book launch on 24th June below… The use, mis-use and neglect of the past by...
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Format, Flexibility, and Speed: Palgrave Pivot | The Academic Book of the Future
I first pitched my forthcoming book, History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government as a full-length monograph in the standard post-PhD manner.It was Jen McCall...
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Reclaiming Relevance from the Dark Side – Public History Weekly – The...
My latest contribution to Public History Weekly, a playful (and rather tenuous) appropriation of Star Wars metaphors to make a point about the tendency to create artificial and insidious binaries:...
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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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History on the political stage in China
It’s not often that historians attending an academic conference find themselves the focus of attention. There may well be some concerted Tweeting between attendees and absent colleagues (#MBS2015...
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A Skeptical Note on Policy-Prescriptive Political Science
Originally posted on Dart-Throwing Chimp:My sometimes-colleague Michael Horowitz wrote a great piece for War on the Rocks last week on what “policy relevance” means for political scientists who study...
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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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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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Back to the future? Public history and the new academic citizen – Public...
One of the strengths of the Public History Weekly blogjournal is that it provides an international forum for tackling fundamental issues and concepts. Public history publications often focus on 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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History as a resource for the future?
Selling history to policymakers is a challenge, particularly in a political culture that prizes numbers above all else. As historians, we can pitch the relevance of our work in a number of ways:...
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‘It’s the mix that matters': new journal article on history and expertise for...
Really pleased to see that my new article has gone ‘live': History as expertise and the influence of political culture on advice for policy since Fulton Here’s the abstract: The 1968 Fulton report made...
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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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Backlash against the digital humanities movement
Our new colleague at Hertfordshire, Adam Crymble, has recently written an ‘essay on the backlash against the digital humanities movement’ – a reflection on ‘living in the age of digital hubris’ over...
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The Public Philosopher comes (back) to town: guilt, apologies and restitution
Two years ago I published the post below about the new Radio Four series, The Public Philosopher (tagline: ‘Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel examines the thinking behind a current...
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External engagement: actions speak louder than words?
I’ve just been at an event on external engagement in the arts and humanities at the University of York, one of a series supported by the British Academy. As is usual for events that bring academics...
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Heritage and Business in Partnership: the power of the anniversary
John Lewis’ 150th anniversary is in full swing. Products with designs inspired by and recovered from the amazing archives now held at the Heritage Centre in Odney are everywhere. I was lucky enough...
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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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Self-herding, discrimination, pride and defiance: thinking about badges
One of my teammates in the university football team had a wooden sign on her door: ‘Mathematics Department’. She was training as a teacher after her maths degree and had been given the sign after a...
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