https://www.phansw.org.au/aha-2015-a-personal-reflection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aha-2015-a-personal-reflection Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:44:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.phansw.org.au/aha-2015-a-personal-reflection/#comment-231809 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:33:14 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=2116#comment-231809 I haven’t been to an AHA for a long time – this post perhaps reflects why not. I have long argued that the only distinction in assessing quality is ‘good history/bad history’. Any other division is nonsense. There is good ‘popular’ history around, as well as bad, and vice versa in the ‘academic’ side of the house. We need to be engaging much more with a wide reading public, not privileging stuff so that it is read by three of the author’s close friends and no-one else. Accessibility and ‘dumbing down’ are not synonyms and should not be so regarded. My two cents’ worth.

]]> https://www.phansw.org.au/aha-2015-a-personal-reflection/#comment-231806 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 05:33:14 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=2116#comment-231806 I think there are historians inside and outside the academy who appreciate that good and bad historical work is done anywhere, but unless students are involved in applied history courses they can miss the complexities of this altogether, so whether it is 2015 or 2007 or 1995 this false dichotomy keeps being rerun as new waves of students go through an academic system that does not bother to teach them anything about the profession. The trouble is, the PHA will talk about this, but they may not.

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