Green, Alix R (2016) History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-146. ISBN 978-1-137-52085-2. Official URL: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137520852
Green, Alix R (2016) History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-146. ISBN 978-1-137-52085-2. Official URL: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137520852
Green, Alix R (2016) History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-146. ISBN 978-1-137-52085-2. Official URL: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137520852
Abstract
This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of ‘public purpose’ that can embrace political decision-making – and also enhance historical practice. Making policy is a complex and messy affair, calling on many different forms of expertise and historians have often been reluctant to get involved in policy advice, with those interested in ‘history in public’ tending to work with museums, heritage sites, broadcasters and community organisations. Green notes, however, that historians have also insisted that ‘history matters’ in public policy debate, and been critical of politicians’ distortions or neglect of the past. She argues that it is not possible to have it both ways.
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2016 16:41 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 18:48 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/18296 |