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TOWARDS A VIEW OF HISTORY FOR OUR OWN TIME

CASSEROLEON

FACULTY OF HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SPIRITUALITY:

14 NOVEMBER 2009: 14/11/2009

1 JANUARY 2010: 1/1/2010

ASSISTING SUB- EDITOR:


THOUGHTS ON HISTORY IN HISTORY is the first part of this project and it tries to show the actual impact of historians on the history of the last 200 years

The aim of this project is to explore the role of history past, present and future, with the aim of establishing:-
(a) the potency of an overview of history as an empowering element in the conduct of human affairs, and
(b) some ideas of how history can further our understanding of our present challenges and the possibilities inherent in our foreseeable future.
To this end the overall project is in two parts.

This first part tries first to show how the study of historical writing has impacted on the story of the last two hundred years.

Part One Dreams and Nightmares
[A] will look at the role of history in the emboldened years centred around 1870.

Part Two- The Making of A Lost Generation-
[B] will look at the period 1870-1914, and inherent faults and fault-lines that were built into this age of major change.

Part Three- The Age of Catastrophe-
[C] will look at the years 1914-1945 which saw a dramatic undermining of faith in the virtues and advantages of Civilization, with its belief in the creation of societies shaped by human thought and not by savage Nature.

Part Four- The Golden Age -
[D] will look at the years 1940-1990 and the implications of the War Aims concept that was designed to weld the society together by deliberately creating a future vision of material security and satisfaction.

Part Five- The Need For A New Civilization-
[E] will consider the rather different experiences of post-war France and Britain. In one there was a feeling that Civilization had to be rebuilt from first principles, while in the other it was possible to “Make do and mend”.

Part Six- Post-War Aspirations and Reality-
[F] will look at the way that the legacy of the “great age of history” led to a cult of managing the Future, so that once “The Liberal Experiment” could be renewed in the 1990’s concepts of “moral restraint” had withered.





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