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History as an Area of Knowledge

History as an Area of Knowledge. Your History. Why does your past matter? How good is your memory? How reliable is it? You take photos, you keep a diary; what do you include, what do you omit?

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History as an Area of Knowledge

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  1. History as an Area of Knowledge

  2. Your History • Why does your past matter? • How good is your memory? How reliable is it? • You take photos, you keep a diary; what do you include, what do you omit? • Would you be more inclined to trust an autobiography or a biography of the same individual written by a historian? • To what extent do you think people learn from their mistakes, and to what extent do you think they keep making the same mistakes?

  3. What is History? • Two answers

  4. Evidence • History is the study of ‘present traces’ of the past.

  5. Significance • The publication of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Speicies in 1859; • The birth of Bill Gates in 1955; • The deposition of MuamarGadaffi in 2011; • England’s World Cup victory in 1966; • The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001; • BinguMutharika becoming President of Malawi in 2005; • The publication of US diplomatic despatches by Wikileaks in 2011.

  6. Significance • Criteria?

  7. Why Study History? • “A page of history is worth a volume of logic” • Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935 • “The past is never dead. It’s not even past” • William Faulkner, 1897-1962 • “Those who don’t study the past are condemned to repeat it” • George Santayana, 1863-1952

  8. 1) It has created our reality and all the world’s identities.

  9. 2) It is a defence against lies, propaganda and myth – ‘ignorance is strength’. • “Who controls the

  10. 3) It tells us what to expect from human nature.

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