Lessons from the history boys

The Independent - London | December 7, 2007| | Copyright

A History of Histories By John Burrow

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The past - what actually happened, how it actually was - is one thing. History - what historians and others have made of the past, or their pasts - is quite another. Often enough, the latter involves a hazardous excursion into a desperately foreign country of the mind. Historiography - the study of how as well as what historians have written - is another thing again. This is the special terrain of John Burrow, latterly a distinguished professor at Sussex and Oxford. He reconnoitres ...

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