Comments on: History, Place and Singapore https://www.phansw.org.au/history-place-singapore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=history-place-singapore Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:45:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yvonne Perkins https://www.phansw.org.au/history-place-singapore/#comment-228568 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:05:57 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1942#comment-228568 In reply to Bruce Baskerville.

I agree Bruce that we should never take access to archives for granted. With budget cuts, some archives in the US have had to drastically cut public access.

I think that professional history is at an interesting juncture in Singapore. At this stage the Singapore Heritage Society (note, that it is heritage, not history) caters for historians, but maybe with increasing public debate about history and recognition by ordinary Singaporeans of the important role it has in society, opportunities may open up for professional historians in future.

]]> By: Bruce Baskerville https://www.phansw.org.au/history-place-singapore/#comment-228395 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:58:36 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1942#comment-228395 A very interesting post. It is always fascinating to see the evolution of public history in other societies, especially one with which we have some shared history. The language of urban planners in Singapore and Sydney is depressingly very similar. With regard to access to archives, older historians will remember more restrictive approaches here not so long ago, and I’m not convinced that the degree of openness we currently have should be taken for granted, and of course that varies across jurisdictions. It doesn’t seem as though the time is yet ripe for a PHA Singapore?

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