Rüter, the Historian

Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive.

The Historian and Archival Finding Aids

Charles Raven. Naturalist, historian, theologian

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

Andrew Malcolm of Belfast: Physician and Historian

THIS book is in two parts: a biography of Malcolm (134 pages) and a facsimile reproduction of his History of the Belfast General Hospital and the Principal Medical Institutions of the Town, first published in 1851 (by S. & G. Agnew) but long out of print and now rare. Both are wvelcome; their publication in one well-produced and comparatively inexpensive volume is particularly appropriate. Thos...

The Role of History, Historiography and Historian in Nation Building

Some scholars outside historical scholarship view history as a past, that only has relevance when it is needed or ‘past’ that should totally be forgotten. Such people see these academic disciplines as archaic if not completely useless. Others hold it in low esteem. This may not only be seen as misconception of history, as a process and discipline, it has as well affected the unity, progress, pe...