Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue

After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia

After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia

The timing of it was interesting for me personally on the global narrative of the collapse of SVB and Signature. On Monday my application with the Commonwealth for a credit card was denied, and I put it down to my income and budget based on a slow business model. The...

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Sinclair Lewis Collection at PWPL

Sinclair Lewis Collection at PWPL

Featured Image: Dr Neville Buch in the Sinclair Lewis Collection, Port Washington, Long Island, New York State (USA). Dear Dr. Buch, It was a pleasure to meet you this afternoon and show you the PWPL’s materials on Sinclair Lewis. Here is a link to a Google Arts and...

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Persons, Ideology, and Cognitive Mapping

Persons, Ideology, and Cognitive Mapping

Ideologies are like social science models. Historians point out that that such boxes are useful for mapping (another form of modelling) but persons and their cognition do not fit with mathematic precision into such spaces.   Such hardline arguments...

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The Case of Birkbeck and Adult Education

The Case of Birkbeck and Adult Education

From Times Higher Education, 12 January 2023 Tom Williams, How Birkbeck was squeezed by years of neglect for adult education, London’s revered ‘night university’ enters bicentenary year mired in financial crisis. Quotes: “Professor Michie, president of Kellogg...

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