One thing that I think blogging can usefully do that historians don’t often do in other, more formal writing spaces is think about the basics of writing style in history. It’s actually the kind of thing that many of us – I suspect – do all the time in the pub, over coffee, or even […]
Read more "Style Notes: Robert Darnton"There are many ways to be small. But when historians talk about little history, it strikes me that they often mean the village study, the regional history, the family, individual, building, or object. They mean ‘micro-history’, which finds its opposite in ‘macro history’. On the other hand, they might even mean chronologically small. See the […]
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Will Pooley 