TY - JOUR
T1 - Writing histories of 2020
T2 - First responses and early perspectives
AU - Vinen, Richard
AU - Langhamer, Claire
AU - Siena, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - The 2020 Historical Research lecture,‘Writing histories of 2020’, asked how future historians might study and understand the global coronavirus pandemic. The lecture brought together historians with three distinctive perspectives: contemporary history and writing of the very recent past, histories of record keeping and current archive creation, and the history of contagious disease and its human consequences.The three speakers, Richard Vinen, Claire Langhamer and Kevin Siena, provided early responses on future histories of 2020 and how we might best prepare the ground for these studies.This article provides written versions of these commentaries. Common to each of the contributions, and subsequent discussion, is the ongoing challenge and responsibility of thinking historically at a time when history is clearly ‘in the making’.
AB - The 2020 Historical Research lecture,‘Writing histories of 2020’, asked how future historians might study and understand the global coronavirus pandemic. The lecture brought together historians with three distinctive perspectives: contemporary history and writing of the very recent past, histories of record keeping and current archive creation, and the history of contagious disease and its human consequences.The three speakers, Richard Vinen, Claire Langhamer and Kevin Siena, provided early responses on future histories of 2020 and how we might best prepare the ground for these studies.This article provides written versions of these commentaries. Common to each of the contributions, and subsequent discussion, is the ongoing challenge and responsibility of thinking historically at a time when history is clearly ‘in the making’.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100177287&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/hisres/htaa029
DO - 10.1093/hisres/htaa029
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85100177287
SN - 0950-3471
VL - 93
SP - 786
EP - 806
JO - HISTORICAL RESEARCH
JF - HISTORICAL RESEARCH
IS - 262
ER -