It may seem strange that a historian would argue that Wikileaks publication of the Afghan War Logs was a waste of time, but it was, and it was possibly harmful. Todays followup, the posting of a huge encrypted “insurance” file on the Wikileaks site, looks like a juvenile stunt , copied from a cheap novel. Continue reading Wikileaks, Fractal and Fractional history
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I found a really old post on bit.listerv.history from 1992 which shows I’ve been saying the same stuff for almost 20 years (and still can’t type properly) “I agree that many people end up in humanities undergrad courses due to a lack of direction, or failure to get into other faculties; and I accept there are very few jos for history graduates as historians. I can’t accept the “no practical use” point though. Continue reading Back on Bitnet.. I’m looking for some (moderately) radical students to help subvert the top-down model that dominates the Irish university sector. I do a quite a bit of research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and I have a couple of things going on which I am keen to open up a bit and get some active inputs. I’m actually looking out for students who might be interested in collaborating on two projects, from offering comments all the way to co-authoring papers. One is on how history teaching in universities differs from culture to culture; the other is my ongoing work on group and team based learning using games in my military history option, HI2007.  Rain in August! The Battle of the Boyne was the largest single battle fought in Ireland, and I recently had the opportunity to walk the site with the Military History Society of Ireland on a typically wet Irish summer day. The walk was led by Dr Harman Murtagh, the society President, who played a key role in the development of the Interpretative Centre and the site, and whose commentary added a lot to our enjoyment of the day. Continue reading Boyne Walk in the Wet |
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