Presenting History
Past and Present
Published on 4. October 2017
368 pages
978-0-230-36411-0 (ISBN)
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Presenting History highlights the vital role of presenters in establishing why history matters and communicating the past to an audience. Case studies of leading historians, historical novelists and television history presenters explore alternative literary and visual ways of presenting the past both as academic and popular history.
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PETER J. BECK Emeritus Professor of History at Kingston University, UK and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His publications include Using History, Making British Policy: the Treasury and Foreign Office, 1950-1976 and Scoring for Britain: International Football and International Politics, 1900-1939. He has contributed to a wide range of publications, radio and television programmes in the UK and internationally, including History Today and the BBC History Magazine.
Content
List of Boxes.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction.- PART I: PRESENTING HISTORY Why History and Presenters of the Past Matter.- Presenting History in Academia.- Reaching Out to a Popular Audience.- PART II: PRESENTERS OF THE PAST: CASE STUDIES A.J.P. Taylor: the People's 'History Man'.- Eric Hobsbawm: the Marxist Historian .- Simon Schama: the Television Historian
