​News | Many practical lessons in history for Singapore

​Scott Anthony, an assistant professor of public history at NTU, wrote in his commentary that history is useful in contributing to the task of shaping tomorrow. At the most basic level, historical research can improve the models used to predict the future, such as for climate change. Other straightforward contributions include digital techniques that are being developed at NTU to study how ancient and medieval medicinal products were used across different Eurasian drug cultures. In the context of the rise of antibiotic-resistant microbes, it is an urgent undertaking. He suggested that there is a plethora of uses that history can and should be put to, but many of these uses are not fully exploited yet in Singapore.

Media: The Straits Times