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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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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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Why would anyone not want to be a [insert your job]?
‘I can’t believe that anyone would not want to be an engineer. It’s baffling to me’ said Naomi Climer, the new President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology on The Life Scientific. As...
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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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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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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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“Our history teachers readied us for this dumb sh*t”: public history and the...
If ever we need historians, it’s now. Niall Ferguson has recently urged the President to convene a Council of Historians for the ‘United States of Amnesia’. It seems unlikely that Trump would be...
View ArticleTooling Up: Public History in the University Curriculum
My latest blog for Public History Weekly was inspired by meeting around 30 Essex applicants for group interviews earlier this year, all with their own reasons for wanting to study history and a truly...
View ArticleUnderstanding archives from the inside: what books about archives should...
Historians tend to look at archives from the outside in. We don’t pause to consider the institution itself, or the complex, skilled work involved before any document appears in a reading room. We are...
View ArticleMobilising business archives through collaboration
Business archivists know their collections contain treasure. Scholarly value is one thing, and many business archives are open to researchers. Value to the parent business – beyond CSR or the PR...
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