History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government


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Introduction. - 1. Integrity, advocacy and the public purpose of scholarship. - 2. Historians on the inside: thinking with history in policy. - 3. The historian's toolkit. - 4. Disciplinary training and public purpose in university history teaching. - Conclusions: Towards a history with public purpose

Author: Alix R. Green
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 07/17/2016
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781137520852
ISBN10: 113752085X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Historiography
- History | Social History
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author

Alix Green is Lecturer in Public History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She read history at the University of Cambridge and spent ten years in policy research and government relations before bringing her experience into academic research on the uses of history. She is particularly interested in historical thinking and the international and conceptual aspects of public history.