{"title":"Historians, accountabilities and judgement","authors":"L. Jordanova","doi":"10.1093/hisres/htab033","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n ‘Accountability’ may be a useful notion for reflecting on historians’ responsibilities, not just to students and peers but to their audiences, to ideas and to the past itself. The roles historians play in public life are of considerable interest given current controversies about ‘contested heritage’ that are strikingly polarized, with the lives of historical figures in the dock. To assess such roles, it is worth making comparisons with the situation a century ago, when the Institute of Historical Research was in its infancy. Furthermore, it may be productive to enlist the help of other disciplines. All such practices involve matters of judgement.","PeriodicalId":13059,"journal":{"name":"Historical Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Historical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1090","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htab033","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
‘Accountability’ may be a useful notion for reflecting on historians’ responsibilities, not just to students and peers but to their audiences, to ideas and to the past itself. The roles historians play in public life are of considerable interest given current controversies about ‘contested heritage’ that are strikingly polarized, with the lives of historical figures in the dock. To assess such roles, it is worth making comparisons with the situation a century ago, when the Institute of Historical Research was in its infancy. Furthermore, it may be productive to enlist the help of other disciplines. All such practices involve matters of judgement.
期刊介绍:
Since 1923, Historical Research has been a leading mainstream British historical journal. Its articles cover a wide geographical and temporal span: from the early middle ages to the twentieth century. It encourages the submission of articles from a broad variety of approaches, including social, political, urban, intellectual and cultural history.