Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?

  • Professional History Practice and The local Philosophy Café, republished from PHA (Qld) E-Bulletin April 2019

    Professional History Practice and The local Philosophy Café, republished from PHA (Qld) E-Bulletin April 2019

      This is the conclusion of the introductory summary for the April meet-up on ‘the Age of Revolution and Nationalism’. Hopefully, then in seeing the importance of these ‘lesson plans’ the argument is well-grounded, not only that there is a groundswell for adult and community education for the higher learning of the humanities, but that…

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  • The Past as Instinctive and the Past as Thought

    The Past as Instinctive and the Past as Thought

    Illustrated Image: ID 45497563 © Agsandrew | Dreamstime.com   Perception as animal instinct is ‘as it happens’, one moment after another’ a habitual succession of association. As Hume points out, we do not perceive causality. It is the thought which constructs our human reality. Association becomes more structured and more tightly experienced, as time-space, and…

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  • Remembering Armistice — Really?

    Remembering Armistice — Really?

    Historia, the news bulletin of the Professional Historians Australia, has published my short analytic article on the Royal Historical Society of Queensland ‘s conference, ‘Remembering Armistice’, on Saturday 16 February. To find out more, click here.  

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  • One a Year

    One a Year

    You wake up 1 January. And what is different? Almost nothing in life experience. It would be an extremely rare occasion that someone would wake up 1 January and be a completely different person that they were on 31 December.   Yet weirdly we go through this cultural cycle of New Year’s celebrations, year after…

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