Writing histories of 2020: First responses and early perspectives

Richard Vinen, Claire Langhamer, Kevin Siena

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Abstract

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’.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)786-806
Number of pages21
JournalHISTORICAL RESEARCH
Volume93
Issue number262
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2020

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