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There are those, politicians among them, who feel that historians should not teach or write about contemporary events and people -many of whom are still living -because of the difficulty of treating such matters with historical perspective, that it is right to draw some distinction between the study of history and the study of current affairs. Proponents of this view seem to be unaware of the concept of contemporary history to which this series is devoted, that the history of the recent past can and should be written with a degree of objectivity. As memories of the Second World War recede, it is surely time to place in perspective the postwar history that has shaped all our lives, whether we were born in the 1940s or the 1970s.Many countries -Britain, the United States and Germany among them -allow access to their public records under a thirty-year rule, opening up much of the postwar period to archival research. For more recent events, diaries, memoirs, and the investigations of newspapers and television, confirm the view of the famous historian Sir Lewis Namier that all secrets are in print provided you know where to look for them. Contemporary historians also have the opportunit

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Author

T. G. Fraser (auth.)

Publisher

Macmillan Education UK : Imprint : Palgrave

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349241439

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Government & Politics