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The existential crisis of historians?

By Kings College London School of Arts and Humanities Fri, Mar 01, 2013 11:23AM UTC 0 Comment

With a petition against Michael Gove’s plans for the school History curriculum (or, as I like to call it, Govestory) currently doing the rounds, and university History departments forced increasingly to justify the value of their research output as part of the Impact Agenda, it can feel at times as though the study of history is becoming an ever more contested ground. The worry for me is that the existential crisis which seems to inevitably hit every student of ‘am I actually doing something worthwhile?’ is being institutionalised. In turn, this adds to that friendly pile of pressure we try...

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Analysis: Singapore and its rare ‘political’ protest

By Kirsten Han Mon, Feb 18, 2013 6:25PM UTC 0 Comment

Protesters gather at Speaker's Corner in Singapore Saturday. Image courtesy of 'Say "No" to an overpopulated Singapore's Facebook page'

Angry and frustrated with the government and its population policy, over 3,000 Singaporeans gathered in Hong Lim Park on Saturday to protest the Population White Paper that had been passed in Parliament on the back of the ruling PAP’s majority. The significant turn-out made it one of the largest crowds gathered in Speakers’ Corner –...

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Now panic and freak out

By Kings College London School of Arts and Humanities Tue, Feb 12, 2013 11:33AM UTC 0 Comment

By the time that you read this, it will hopefully all be over. I will either have successfully delivered my first ever proper academic lecture (on Ireland in British politics) or it will have been a St Valentine’s Day massacre.This lecture has unequivocally taken over my life. I realised that the fact that it is all I can think about had taken on ridiculous heights when I began dreaming about it. ...

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