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What is history, now? : How the past and present speak to each other Edited by Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ©2021.Edition: 1Description: 339PISBN:
  • 9781474622462
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 1 901 CAR-W
Contents:
Prologue: Ways in / Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb -- Why global history matters / Peter Frankopan -- Why history deserves to be at the movies / Alex von Tunzelmann -- Can and should we queer the past? / Justin Bengry -- What is vernacular history? / Sarah Churchwell -- How can we write the history of empire? / Maya Jasanoff -- Glorious memory / Dan Hicks -- How can we write the history of disability? / Jaipreet Virdi -- Can our emotions have a history? / Helen Carr -- What can prehistory and ancient history tell us about being wise? / Bettany Hughes -- Why diversity in Tudor England matters / Onyeka Nubia -- How can we recover the lost lives of women? / Susannah Lipscomb -- How do we write the history of religion? / Miri Rubin -- Why family history matters / Emily Brand -- How can museums open doors to the past? / Gus Casely-Hayford -- How making space for Indigenous peoples changes history / Leila K. Blackbird and Caroline Dodds Pennock -- How East Asia's past is shaping the present and future (or why we ignore China and Japan at our peril) / Rana Mitter -- Why history should always be rewritten / Charlotte Lydia Riley -- How literature shapes history / Islam Issa -- History, naturally / Simon Schama.
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Prologue: Ways in / Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb --
Why global history matters / Peter Frankopan --
Why history deserves to be at the movies / Alex von Tunzelmann --
Can and should we queer the past? / Justin Bengry --
What is vernacular history? / Sarah Churchwell --
How can we write the history of empire? / Maya Jasanoff --
Glorious memory / Dan Hicks --
How can we write the history of disability? / Jaipreet Virdi --
Can our emotions have a history? / Helen Carr --
What can prehistory and ancient history tell us about being wise? / Bettany Hughes --
Why diversity in Tudor England matters / Onyeka Nubia --
How can we recover the lost lives of women? / Susannah Lipscomb --
How do we write the history of religion? / Miri Rubin --
Why family history matters / Emily Brand --
How can museums open doors to the past? / Gus Casely-Hayford --
How making space for Indigenous peoples changes history / Leila K. Blackbird and Caroline Dodds Pennock --
How East Asia's past is shaping the present and future (or why we ignore China and Japan at our peril) / Rana Mitter --
Why history should always be rewritten / Charlotte Lydia Riley --
How literature shapes history / Islam Issa --
History, naturally / Simon Schama.

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