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History vs Herstory

Intelligence Squared

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The Importance of Storytelling in History

I think I came to history through a number of different routes, but one of them was watching period drama. That's the way in which a lot of people come to it, all reading novels and then suddenly you want to find out more about it. We have to look at history as stories and stories that tell us something about what it means to be human rather than this very antiquated definition of what history is.

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