History Now and Then

14 October, 2015: History, history, everywhere... The apparent paradox that, alongside the recent growth of popular interest in history, many people also seem to lack a sense of the continuity between past and present. Panel: Ronald Hutton, Paul Lay, David Reynolds, Pat Thane

11 November, 2015: History as Heritage: The preservation, distortion and commercialisation of the past.Panel: Jonathan Glancey, Robert Hewison, Anna-Maria Misra, Simon Thurley

9 December, 2015: Does the ‘Real’ Past Matter?: The history and function of historical myth. Panel: Peter Burke, David Cesarani, Justin Champion, Roy Foster

13 January, 2016: Rewriting the Past: The need felt in each generation to reconfigure the past. Panel: Penelope Corfield, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Ian Kershaw, Jonathan Steinberg

10 February, 2016: Pictures of the Past: How far can artworks provide a pathway - or a stumbling block - towards understanding the past.?Panel: Vic Gatrell, Simon Goldhill, Marion Kant, Simon Shaw-Miller

9 March, 2016: Uses and Abuses of the Past: History as ideology, consolation, nostalgia, vindication, identity, revenge. Where does ‘History’ go from here? Panel: Anne Curry, Peter Hennessy, Paul Preston, Donald Sassoon

Registration is required. Tickets are £5 per session or £25 for all 6 sessions. Tickets can be purchased online at: http://bit.ly/1MpwSc1 Free for Friends of the IHR

Welcome: Lawrence Goldman Chair: Daniel Snowman

Wolfson Conference Suite,

IHR (London)

6.00-7.30pm

Followed by

refreshments

A series of six public seminars on current issues raised by the study of the past

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