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Tag: historical interest

Creating interest or context?

September 29, 2015October 1, 2015 Public History Student 34 Comments

By Corine Bossink   Who haven’t heard of them? Twitter accounts or Facebook pages who pretend to present ‘history’, posting ‘historical’ pictures, like @HistoryInPics. In February 2014 they had 1.02 million followers, which expanded to 2.62 million nowadays [1]. They even have a Tumblr, Instagram and Facebook page. In other words, they are amazingly popular. […]

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