David Starkey -- Henry VIII 2009 Exhibition

1:48 - 1:52
What building is that? And where is it? It looks way cool.

Britain has a great history.

Modern social scientists, on the other hand, can collect data specifically for their research project. To return to the example of unemployment, a modern sociologist would be able to advertise for unemployed people and taylor his questions to them to suit his research.

Historians do not have this luxury.

Sorry excuse the typo, I should have wrote tailor, not taylor.

One extra point:
Historical research is sometimes harder than modern social scientific research. This is because the evidence historians use was often not originally collected for the purpose of their research. For example, the stusy of unemployment in London in the 1560s would require the use of records that were kept for purposes other than research on unemployment (such as guild records, arrests of vagrants etc)
Thus historians have to use intelligence to interpret difficult evidence.

History is a social science that is patterned. Higher level historical analysis can get very theoretical at times and a high level of intelligence is needed to place research findings into the framework of larger social theory.

I have an MA in history myself, and I must say that engaging with the evidence, interpreting past scholarship and making sure that your argument and findings are logically consistent requires just as much intelligence as a medical doctor or engineer.

Being a historian requires a reasonable degree of "intelligence". Professional historical research is far more difficult than being able to "look up the past", as the past is often not cut and dried and thus historians have to engage with evidence and develop a logical argument out of their research.

Your comments are an insult to all the minimum wage people that are working hard and have dreams.

I have a friend who works for minimum wage as a farm hand. He got c$25k for his first year and saved half of it, he got the governments $10k first home owners grant and got a loan for a block of land. Last year he just finished building his house- He worked hard to acquire his dream of owning a home.




You are an insult for all the hardworking people out there.

There are many people working at minimum wage jobs that are responsible, hardworking people who have families, savings deposits, and own their own home. Many of them even have a few stocks in companies.

Perhaps we live in different countries, but in Australia the minimum wage is $560 a week, that is quite a bit of money and without a family you can save quite a bit.

Dude, I know machanics that are complete idiots when it comes to book learning, but they earn four or five times the minimum wage.

Education just means that you have a refined technical skill, nothing more. I have a masters degree in history myself, but there are thousands of things that I am ignorant in.

Job and intelligence is unrelated. My brother is a bus driver, yet his IQ was tested higher than mine (and I have three uni degrees!)

bitsiboo and EFBoler, playing the 'i'm ever so intelligent' card, defending comments like starkey's makes you as bad as the people you are trying to 'outwit'. using wage as an insult. good for you. the reason the world is in the state it is is because of people with his and your attitude referring to countries as lesser in turn referring to the people from that country as lesser. being better paid and educated doesn't make you a better person.