The geological concept ‘the Anthropocene’ circulates widely outside Earth System Science – in museum communities, public culture, social sciences, and amongst social science and humanities scholars, artists, activists and ...

In the early 19th century, at the dawn of the historical professions, historians did not dismiss working with objects and collaborating with museums. It was the increasing professionalization of the discipline of history ...

24 September is annually “Heritage Day” in South Africa. A Cape Town cartoonist conveyed greetings for the day in a cartoon he entitled “When the rainbow nation becomes the boerewors Nation.” It very effectively introduces ...

Digital history is a field that escapes easy definition due to its incorporation of an ever-growing variety of methods, disciplines and endeavours. However, this slim volume – part of Polity’s What is History series – ...

This article outlines my doctoral thesis project that began in October 2021. Given the interdisciplinary nature of this hybrid doctoral project, the challenge is twofold. First, bridging the gap between a historical analysis ...

Ultimately, dialogical memorialisation is a way to promote critical thinking and engagement with these old statues, moving away from viewing them as nineteenth-century memory culture relics and transforming them into more ...

La rete ha modificato in modo significativo il rapporto dell’opinione pubblica con la storia, entrando con prepotenza per diffondere le sue realizzazioni prima con siti, poi con i social network e gli strumenti tipici del ...

Dass die Geschichtsdidaktik praxisfern und theorieverliebt agiere, ist fast ein Gemeinplatz. Der nicht zutrifft. Vielmehr gründet die Disziplin auf einem soliden wissenschaftlichen Fundament und engagiert sich in zunehmend ...

Depuis l’apparition du WWW dans les universités après 1994, on se pose la question de savoir si ce nouveau médium de la communication facilitera l’apocalypse des pratiques spécialistes et d’une ontologie séculaire des ...