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Living, breathing, history
By Carys Brown @HistoryCarys As a lover of history, few things excite or engage me more than dusty manuscripts and stories from the past: the shocking, the inspiring, the scandalous, and even the mundane. Although my obsession may be particularly acute, it’s not unusual – as Laurence Goldman pointed out while opening the Royal Historical Society’s…
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Virtual History?
By Patrick McGhee | @patricksmcg Computer and video gaming is now firmly a part of cultural, political and economic discourse. The financial and cultural power of video games is beyond dispute. The video games market will soon be worth $100bn and video games are played together by millions of people connected around the world. Gaming…
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Identifying and removing barriers to digital history
By Carys Brown, James Baker, Richard Deswarte, Adam Crymble Originally posted on the Defining Effective Mentorship in Digital History site. What factors are preventing academics from learning the digital skills that could enhance their research? A diverse group of twenty scholars consisting of postgraduate students and academic staff, assembled in Cambridge this past month to find…
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In praise of history teachers
By Carys Brown @HistoryCarys I learned more about the nature of the discipline of history during my PGCE and year as a Newly Qualified Teacher than I have in all of the rest of my academic study combined. It might be that I’m a poor academic historian, but rather I think it says something about the immense…
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Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope
By Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) and Aoife O’Leary McNeice (@aolmcn) We were both lucky enough to attend two events with the revered black communist scholar and activist Professor Angela Davis in March and April. The first was held at the Southbank Centre in London for International Women’s Day as part of the Women of the World festival with the…
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