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Blogging For Historians

A best practice Blog: Academic, Archival and Library History blogging

Providing advice, interviews, and training about blogging and using social media in the History profession.

About

Blogging for Historians focuses on best practice for creating, managing, and writing blogs across the arts and humanities.

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Videos and Podcasts

This page contains videos and podcasts developed for the Blogging for Historians project and a selection of other videos and podcasts.

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Tutorials

Short tutorials to help you get started with a blog, designed for postgraduate and early career researchers focused on historical research.

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Latest Posts

  • Crowdsourcing, scholarship and the academy October 21, 2015
  • Social Scholar (18 March 2015) Using Social Media for a National Festival (and Learning how to engage online) March 11, 2015
  • Podcasting academic research: PhD-Casts and Viva-Voce (Social Scholar, 18 February 2015) February 16, 2015
  • Archive Blogs in the UK – A follow-up survey January 12, 2015
  • We the Humanities: The Benefits and drawbacks of the Social Scholar (3 December 2014) November 25, 2014

Podcast Interviews

Podcast Interviews
A short series of podcasted interviews were conducted as part of the original Blogging for Historians project. They can all be found here.

Research and Surveys

Who uses blogs in the History profession and why? How successful are these blogs? This section shows some of the research results into these questions.

Interviews

A series of interviews with experts in History who are also bloggers.
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Blogging for Historians came into existence through the kind grant of a Social Media Knowledge Exchange (SMKE) scholarship in 2012-13.

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Twitter

  • Another post about seeking the #GoodLife This time looking at the ancient philosophers of Greece and Rome seekingthegoodlife.substack.com/p/a-good-life-… 17 hours ago
  • This week on @SubstackInc #HoneyBee Histories I continue to explore the history of the drone bees. honeybeehistories.substack.com/p/the-drone-be… 1 week ago
  • A quick look at the IPCC's impacts, adaptation and vulnerability working group and one of the videos that they have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 weeks ago
  • @SubstackInc I use @SubstackInc to write honeybeehistories.substack.com. It's partly a way to share what I find about the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 weeks ago
  • My latest Seeking the #GoodLife essay is out, looking at how I and others define #ClimateChange and the difficultie… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 weeks ago
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