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The 2020 historical research lecture: writing histories of 2020: first responses and early perspectives
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 22:11 authored by Richard Vinen, Claire Langhamer, Kevin SienaThe 2020 Historical Research lecture, ‘Writing histories of 2020’, asked how future historians might study and understand the global coronavirus pandemic. The lecture brought together historians with three distinctive perspectives: contemporary history and writing of the very recent past, histories of record keeping and current archive creation, and the history of contagious disease and its human consequences. The three speakers, Richard Vinen, Claire Langhamer and Kevin Siena, provided early responses on future histories of 2020 and how we might best prepare the ground for these studies. This article provides written versions of these commentaries. Common to each of the contributions, and subsequent discussion, is the ongoing challenge and responsibility of thinking historically at a time when history is clearly ‘in the making’.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Accepted version
Journal
Historical ResearchISSN
0950-3471Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
Issue
262Volume
93Page range
786-806Department affiliated with
- History Publications
Full text available
- Yes
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- Yes