As a quick Google search will demonstrate, there are thousands of blogs about history out there, on every subject imaginable. Over the past couple of decades, blogs have become a quick and easy way to publish short articles, and the authors taking advantage of the format include many historians working at universities across the globe, who write about an astonishing range of subjects.
Often historians share details about their own research, meaning that blogs can offer cutting-edge insights into different fields of historical enquiry. You might learn about the sorts of primary sources that a scholar seeks out and analyses to write a history, or get a quick introduction to a century that you knew nothing about. You might be invited to think about what the past sounded and smelt like, or to consider what you could learn from just one page of a person’s diary. Other scholars use their blogs to write ‘points of view’, offering a more personal and reflective angle on the discipline of history as well as higher education more generally. What’s more, increasingly, institutions and organisations (museums, publishers and so on) also maintain their own blogs, providing yet more insights into what history is and how it works.
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