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What is History?
What is History?
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So you think you know 'Historiography'???
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What could define 'History' in the 20th Century?
Self-reflective
Abundance of sources – mass newspapers, photographs, film
Pure fiction
A grand narrative
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If I were to write about the Annales School of thought, what should I NOT include?
A psychological lens to history
Discussion of linear history
An inability to access the past
Immersion in the subject
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What is 'objectivity'?
The ability to infuse your writing with your own views
Important
The absence of the author's voice
Contextual truth
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What do Elton and Carr fight about?
Historical Narrative
Historical objectivity
The last piece of toast
Importance of revisionism
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Whose quote was that in Q8?
Jenkins
Reynolds
Kepur
Windschuttle
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Which is Elton's quote?
What actually happened
Past is intelligible to usonly in the light of the present
A 'fact of history'...interpretation or general acceptance
Each society has its regime oftruth
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What is 'popular' history?
Fun history
History that everyone agrees on
Controversial history
Mass-consumption of history
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Which is NOT a historiographical debate?
Postmodernism
Historical Objectivity
Science vs Art
History Wars
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Which of the following IS a possibility in relativist historiography?
a 'many voices' history
Empirical search for 'truth'
Absence of meaning
Disregard for historical truth
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"The absence of the fabulous from my account will seem less pleasing to the ear" Who said it?
Carr
Reynolds
Elton
Thucydides
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Lisa's view is an example of _______ thinking.
Postmodern
Populist
Marxist
Post-Structuralist
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What medium is NOT an example of 'popular' history?
Genealogy website
Graphic novel
Historical fiction
Statistics
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"If evidence cannot be found in the official colonial records then...
... it's probably not trustworthy"
... it could not have happened"
... we cannot trust the historian"
... oral sources must be consulted"
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Jenkins draws on whose ideas on 'meta-narratives' in his own views on history?
Karl Marx
Hayden White
Henry Reynolds
E. H. Carr
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According to Elton, what is required for something to be considered a 'fact' of history?
Objectivity
Honorable intentions
the practice of history
Historical truth
