Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: Blog

  • On This Day: Sunday, 5 July 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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  • On This Day: Saturday, 4 July 2020

    On This Day: Saturday, 4 July 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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  • On This Day: Friday, 3 July 2020

    On This Day: Friday, 3 July 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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  • On This Day: Thursday, 2 July 2020

    On This Day: Thursday, 2 July 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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  • On This Day: Wednesday, 1 July 2020

    On This Day: Wednesday, 1 July 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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  • Oh, No! Not the Religion and Science Debate, Again, and Again…and Again…

    Oh, No! Not the Religion and Science Debate, Again, and Again…and Again…

    In The Philosophy Cafe, Brisbane, Australia, meeting, this discussion will not be a debate, but a process of deconstructing the mixed messages that tangle people up in cognitive knots. In both categories, of ‘religion’ and ‘science’, misconceptions abound. For Script, click here: Religion & Science (PowerPoint Script)  

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  • Embrace Messy History — Thinking about Race, Class, Gender, and the Sense of Place in Our Own Past (and not limited to the Other Person’s)

    Trae Crowder has a series of videos in ‘Southin’ Off’ to explain the complex, but pointed, history of the American South region. It has been a very educative series, but one episode has to be listen to; in order to understand the nature of history, not necessarily of the other person’s, but of our own…

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  • On This Day: Tuesday, 30 June 2020

    On This Day: Tuesday, 30 June 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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  • On This Day: Monday, 29 June 2020

    On This Day: Monday, 29 June 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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  • On This Day: Sunday, 28 June 2020

    On This Day: Sunday, 28 June 2020

    Anniversaries and commemorations come and go daily. Most of us, even the best historians, miss most occasions. If we think of history as events then we are faced with a continually showering in the grains of sand. Nevertheless, we do pick out certain patterns in the remembrance of historical dates. The blog here reminds us…

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