Thank you for your email, [name removed].
But the majority of the hoi polloi and the political class do not have any idea of constructing history as entries in dictionaries or mapping tools, let alone a book. In fact the population has become so book lethargic, local history groups are finding it very challenging maintaining their existence. Without the population being encouraged to take reading seriously, rather than as comforting escapism (this is a link to Erich Fromm’s insight of 1960), the political class has killed local history.
Take the Annerley-Stephens History Group Inc. It flourishes because there are volunteers who produce booklets. Persons are willing to put in time to write, read, and publish. But even booklets, collections of papers are not enough for the future. The history book publishing industry has not disappeared, as some persons predicted, a decade or so ago, and I suspected they wanted it to. The future is reflexing back to the book, as persons have had enough of the political class’s culture-history war.
I am already heavily invested, singularly, in writing, reading, and publishing.
I appreciate your effort to send me the link to the Tingalpa Pioneers’ Chapel and Cemetery website. That alone is not going to be enough. I need either funding to pay someone to redesign the entry or a volunteer to redesign the entry.
This task requires professionally-trained skills, that is, working with computers and software programs. This is what members of the political class do not understand or refuse to understand. The local history, globally, is not something that politicians or counsellors can “just throw a bone” to the members. Some of the councillors, cc. here, have done the best they can (I thank them deeply and emotionally-intelligent), and others have not.
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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