Infographics and Public History

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the role of infographics in public history. In thelast few years, infographics have become increasingly popular both on- and offline.My aim is thus to identify best practices in order to bridge the gap between aca-demic research and the wider public. The chapter is therefore divided into fourmain sections. It starts by asking what infographics are and how can we distinguishdata visualisation from infographics. The next section discusses public history andinfographics, identifying the main uses of infographics in the discipline. The chap-ter then focuses on which steps to take in order to compose an infographic for thepurpose of communicating historical research to the public, including orientation,content, and software and online resources, before drawing some conclusions inthe final section.