History's strength Flashcards
Heritage Sector
2006, ‘History Matters - pass it on’
Civic Trust, National Trust, Eng Heritage, Historic Houses Association, Heritage Lottery Fund
Over 20 000 online declarations of support
Over 1 million visited heritage site during single weekend in September
Universities
Mandler - demand-based UK HE sector has meant despite longstanding pop hums criticism from politicians, hums able to hold their own.
After 1964 French philosophy, post-structuralist lit criticism, politics. Led to incr in pop of hums.
1970 balance 50-50 arts and sciences
1970-2015, hums broadly defined have retained stable share of about 21% of all degrees
History, Philosophy, Languages and lit have held up well at just under 10% of total
Schmidt - thanks to university expansion, proportion of college-age pop holding hums degrees has incr greatly
Hist degrees awarded to 10,000 students a year today - trebling of nums since early 1980s
Economy
An OECD report showed that Britain, far from
being a laggard in science education, had ‘the greatest concentration on
science and technology in higher education and the biggest proportion
of qualified scientists and technologists
Heritage sites such as the Tower of London and Edinburgh Castle help generate £26.4bn towards the UK economy (2013)
UK’s creative industries are now worth a record £84.1 billion to the UK economy
Job prospects
Mandler -
Employers, encouraged by policymakers, continued
to talk loudly about ‘transferable skills’ but equally continued to solicit
graduate applicants generically rather than graduates in particular
subjects. In this context, a single-honours humanities degree looked as
promising an option as any other subject.
Media
Downton Abbey final xmas special episode 2015, 6.9 million viewers
Legal disputes
In Europe, a string of
legal and political disputes since the 1980s have drawn on the expertise of historians
historical commission brought down a government in 2002, when a group of
historians of the Second World War (six years’ duration) reported against the Dutch
military’s conduct in the massacre at Srebrenica
