Meanwhile: public history in review
Edited by Patrick Boucheron and Aurélien Peter
From the digital magazine Entre-temps, this book is an anthology of texts showing, through a wide variety of approaches, what public history can be today.
Entre-temps magazine aims to explore and share new experiences and writings of history in a digital format. Hosted since 2018 by the Collège de France and led by young researchers in the framework of Patrick Boucheron's chair, each week it reviews, through texts, podcasts and videos, the demands and questionings of an engaged and scholarly history that not only seeks to disseminate its knowledge more widely, but also to put it to the test of diverse audiences, testifying to the variety and creativity of the ways in which the historical past is put into presence, notably through the arts. In this sense, Entre-temps is indeed a journal of public history, in keeping with the Collège de France's mission to bring science to society.
This book presents an anthology of texts from this magazine : following the major headings that organize its contents (" Façonner ", " Créer ", " Transmettre " and " Exhumer ") and giving an overview of the major series that animate it, it enables us to take the measure of the narrative, visual and performative experiments that it has given rise to. For while the Internet is its own archive, the book form remains the main vehicle for public debate. That's why this book, by giving shape to a digital archive of the contemporary, aims to contribute to a wider discussion of what public history can do today.
Boucheron P. (ed.) and Peter A. (ed.), Entre-temps : l'histoire publique en revue, Paris, Collège de France, coll. " Faire savoir ", 2025, 344 p.
ISBN : 978-2-7226-0843-6
Paperback pRICE : 30 €
Publication 23 October 2025
