Oliver Jelf News Today

Writing for a public audience is a double-edged sword. It’s all very well to want to put your work out there and reach as wide an audience as possible – and even if it’s not something you really yearn for, it’s still heavily encouraged and incentivised throughout academia. But it comes with significant risks, and those only grow and multiply as you reach a wider and wider audience.

Dr Jenny Bulstrode claims Henry Cort, often credited with inventing a pioneering iron-making process in 1784, was not, in fact, responsible

How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid