Writing histories of 2020: First responses and early perspectives

Richard Vinen; Claire Langhamer; Kevin Siena

doi:10.1093/hisres/htaa029

Writing histories of 2020: First responses and early perspectives

Richard Vinen, Claire Langhamer, Kevin Siena

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	786-806
Number of pages	21
Journal	HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Volume	93
Issue number	262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaa029
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

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