History on the hill: Aspects of scholarship and scholarly life at the Unisa History Department, 1968–2000

Abstract

Given the nature o f the historical profession and its interest in change over time, it is perhaps not surprising that historians should be imbued with a more keenly felt sense of a personal past than may otherwise be the case. This probably spurs them on to recount their own histories or those o f institutions with which they have been involved. In South Africa as well as abroad several examples come to mind. l