Posts Tagged ‘history’
Listening to the speakers at this day-long symposium held by the Asian Research Institute, I could not help but realise how history like journalism shares the issue of gatekeeping. One after another, the various scholars of Singapore history brought us through the different gates of history and also from the perspective of makers (outside) and [...]
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Tags: Asian Research Institute, Edwin Thumboo, history, Journalism, Symposium on the Makers and Keepers of Singapore Histor
This is the year 3000 and to commemorate its coming of the third millennium, the Singapore Histories Museum has organised an exhibition of artifacts that traced the development of Singapore since its beginnings as Temasek. On display for the very first time is a piece of digital memory traced back to the year 2008 that [...]
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Tags: AsPI, history, singapore, Sungei Road, Thieves Market
The Fabrication of History
Don’t believe everything you see.
What is history?
It connotes some kind of “official” account of a past that is often seen as “the truth” because it has been verified by historians who practice certain methods that help to determine its validity.
This is probably the single defining factor that distinguishes “history” from two other accounts of the [...]
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Tags: history, memories, myths
