Doing History in Public

Tag: Public History

  • I was taught by a “Garbage Cleaner”: Backlash to Online History Communication

    I was taught by a “Garbage Cleaner”: Backlash to Online History Communication

    By Matúš Lazar Alongside his doctoral research on public history, Matúš Lazar also runs a YouTube channel under the name M. Laser. In this post, he discusses his experience in producing historical content online. My real name is Matúš Lazar, but most people know me under my online pseudonym M. Laser. As M. Laser I…

  • Auschwitz and a Rose Garden: The Zone of Interest is a Brave, but Flawed Film

    Auschwitz and a Rose Garden: The Zone of Interest is a Brave, but Flawed Film

    by Beatrice Leeming There exists an established filmic tradition that has dealt with the ethics of representation and subscribed to the pedagogical power of cinema. The Holocaust has been documented and dramatized with progressive intensity since its occurrence. The perpetrators have been satirised, the victims heroized, and the narrative memorialised in both powerful and problematic…

  • Zara Kesterton – Historian Highlight

    Zara Kesterton – Historian Highlight

    Zara Kesterton, interviewed by Jake Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Zara Kesterton, a second-year PhD candidate at Jesus College and former DHP editor-in-chief. We discuss artificial flowers, French fashion merchants, and…

  • Historian Highlight: Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)

    Historian Highlight: Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)

    by Chris Campbell @Chris__Campbell  Although the idea of the ‘public historian’ is a relatively recent concept – spurred on by the growth in consumption of documentaries, podcasts, blogs and social media – there have always been academic historians who have found a broader readership and commanded a certain influence amongst the general public. This new…

  • Adding nuance to Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin

    Adding nuance to Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin

    by Noam Bizan, @NoamBzn On 6th February, former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin in an intricately decorated room in the Kremlin.[1] Much has been written analysing this interview and Carlson’s trip to Moscow, largely focusing on the interview’s implications for current US-Russian relations and the war in Ukraine, which just marked…