PUBLIC HISTORY.(amateurs study the past)
History Today, May, 2000 by Jordanova, Ludmilla
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Ludmilla Jordanova enters the lists on behalf of historians speaking out beyond the groves of academe, and considers some of the challenges they face.
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RECENT TIMES have seen a surge of interest in `history', a word that has many meanings. It can simply mean the past, and in this sense history has become a focus of increasing popular and commercial interest. History is also an academic discipline, and debates about its status as a field of study have intensified. For many years historiography, often used loosely to convey reflection upon the practice of history, was considered ...
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