New Year, New Ideas - How will History be written?
Happy New Year, or should I say Happy Hogmanay? I recently got back from visiting the wonderful city of Edinburgh to ring in the New Year, but in the process of looking back at the last year, we can’t help but look to the future, too. So, here are some thoughts based on our discussions around the piano last night. History is a discipline which famously looks to the past, and rarely do historians think of the future. While many of us sit and think about what events of history could have changed, and by extension, how this would have impacted us today, we rarely look at the future of it as a subject. Sure, those of you who follow my blog will know that I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of history in places like higher education. However, this post looks at something different. Below, I outline some of the weird and wonderful ways I think the history of ‘now’ will evolve to be told in the future. Sources We live in a digital age that has profoundly shifted how his...