History, Policy and Public Purpose

Alix Green is Lecturer in Public History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She read history at the University of Cambridge and spent ten years in policy research and government relations before bringing her experience into academic research on the uses of history.  She is particularly interested in historical thinking and the international and conceptual aspects of public history.

• Introduction. - 1. Integrity, advocacy and the public purpose of scholarship. - 2. Historians on the inside: thinking with history in policy. - 3. The historian’s toolkit. - 4. Disciplinary training and public purpose in university history teaching. - Conclusions: Towards a history with public purpose