The Uses and Abuses of Contemporary History
28th Oct 2010; 18:30
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What are the perils for a society if it doesn’t have an accurate sense of its past? Are those who do not know their history really condemned to repeat it? To what extent is a small amount of historical knowledge a dangerous thing? And how much of the history that is popularly relied on in contemporary discourse not historical fact?
An expert panel gathers to reflect on the uses and abuses of contemporary history.
Speakers: Peter Hennessy, Atlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London; Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP and Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies University of Oxford.
Chair: Andrew Rawnsley, chief political commentator, The Observer.
Organised with the Inside Out Festival
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