During the four days of open sessions at the conference, participants tweeted over forty thousand words excluding hashtags and Twitter handles. This year’s conference had the biggest Twitter stream of any Australian Historical Association conference since 2012 and as my last post showed, more people tweeted the conference than ever before. A conference Twitter stream is a news … [Read more...] about Twitter Themes During 2015 Australian Historical Association Conference
Public History
Big Questions in History: History’s Relevance in Contemporary Society
Family history is an important entrée into wider historical interests for many people in our society. But historian Anna Clark asks if connecting to the past through personal experience shuts out other personal experiences? Anna Clark from University of Technology, Sydney was one of five historians who spoke at the popular ‘Big Questions in History’ panel at the recent … [Read more...] about Big Questions in History: History’s Relevance in Contemporary Society