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History ventures: skills vs knowledge in the public history marketplace
“The skills of doing history are more frequently used, needed, and recompensed than the expertise of knowing history” This is Darlene Roth, writing in the NCPH’s Public History News. Roth goes on to...
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Public philosophy 2: experts and climate change
Once we accept the expert authority of climate science, we have no basis for supporting the minority position. So argues Gary Gutting, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, in ‘The...
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The ‘endless rustle of the in-tray’: finding time for historical thinking
Rohan Butler served as the Foreign Secretary’s historical adviser from 1963-82 and was one of the leading figures in the civil service’s post-war experiment in incorporating historical perspective into...
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Useful evidence for policymaking: broadening the base?
A colleague just forwarded to me an invitation to an event run by the Alliance for Useful Evidence on the topic of ‘Broadening the evidence base: science and social science in social policy’....
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Policy advisers: out of the top corridor and into the classroom?
The university policy adviser is now a fixture in higher education. At least, there are enough of us that we’re now getting organised. There’s a large Political Affairs Network under the auspices of...
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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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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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Historian with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office – a job with a history
Last week, the post of Historian with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was advertised (with the strapline ‘If you’re passionate about the past and excited about the future, consider a role as a...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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