Simon Schama on History Lessons
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9 жыл бұрын"History should sound less like newspaper editorials and more like poetry."
In his lecture, Simon Schama illustrates with great passion what historians should accomplish to captivate the common reader, the student and the professional. For if we do not cherish our past, and pass on the chain of memory, we might encounter the cultural lobotomy presented in Orwell’s ’1984’.
Nexus Lecture 2014, ‘History’ Lessons by Simon Schama.
This Nexus Lecture is published in Dutch in Nexus 69, ‘Gechiedenislessen’.
See: www.nexus-instituut.nl
@historify.54 Жыл бұрын
Facts and imaginative interpretation are not mutually exclusive. An appalling number of history books lack compelling narratives. This man is right on so many levels.
@HundreadD 3 жыл бұрын
Now there's a great man and writer, but little help to be done for it I'm afraid. Even when I was younger I used to sneer at people going for history degrees, not that I knew anyone personally going for a history degree in the first place, and it seemed everyone agreed with me. To be a historian now you need to be one in a million, and to be a great poetic writer on top of that one in a billion if not less
@lolab56 10 ай бұрын
That's not what he's saying. He's saying one needs to be imaginative to be an historian. I did two years towards a Ph.D. in the history of ideas before becoming a criminal lawyers. Schama is one of the best historians in the world and believes that history should be for everyone because it originally was spoken in stories. This is an academic lecture and he's trying to tell academics to stop being to obtuse and write better.
@lolab56 10 ай бұрын
so obtuse rather.