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History in the Public Eye
By Amy Schaffman Amy is a Modern European History MPhil student in the Faculty of History. She is currently researching WWII Anglo-American relations through the lens of the overseas evacuation of children. Public history occupies a strange place within the field of history. Its non-academic components are many and varied: museums, memorials, television programs, popular…
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Public History in the Digital Sphere: /r/AskHistorians
By Joe Rachman What sparked the craze for martial arts, particularly kung fu, in 1970s America? Why did some Serbs commit acts of genocide in the late twentieth century despite Serbs themselves having been victims of genocide during World War Two? What started the Opium Wars? Did Zarathustra, the supposed founder of Zoroastrianism, actually exist?…
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Vernacular material, opinion polling or social survey? Approaching popular testimony in the Mass-Observation archive
by Rebecca Goldsmith @relgoldsmith The field of modern British history has experienced a new ‘turn’ in recent years. Historians like Jon Lawrence, David Cowan and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite have pioneered the re-use of archived interview field-notes from post-war social science.[1] By and large, this trend has been motivated by an interest in the subjects of social…
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