Bertram, Carol2012-02-162012-02-162008Bertram, C. 2008. Exploring the concept of an 'historical gaze'. Yesterday & today, 3:1-9, Oct. [http://www.sashtw.org.za/index2.htm] [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/5126]2223-0386http://hdl.handle.net/10394/5528The purpose of this paper is to interrogate what makes history a specialised and particular discipline; to ask what does it mean to do history and to know history. I draw on the work of those working within the field of the sociology of knowledge, particularly the work of Dowling, to begin a discussion around the concept of an historical gaze. I argue that this concept may provide an analytic tool to help us to keep the intertwined strands of procedural knowledge and substantive knowledge in history from unravelling and coming apart.enArticle