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Tuesday, 15 December 2015

The Refugee Crisis, the Paris attacks and the Death of History. Part 3A

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So, you're maybe saying, if History isn't about, or doesn't matter because of, all of the things you discussed in Parts 1-3, wh...
Friday, 11 December 2015

The Refugee Crisis, the Paris attacks and the Death of History. Part 3

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More on the deconstruction of narrative and the political irrelevance of specific histories... Part 1 of this essay is here Part 2 of thi...
Tuesday, 8 December 2015

The Refugee Crisis, the Paris attacks and the Death of History. Part 2

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[ In this part I begin to look at the ways in which the narratives used by 'historians' to comment on current affairs are constructe...
Monday, 7 December 2015

The Refugee Crisis, the Paris attacks and the Death of History. Part 1.

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[ The blog post I started composing about the riot of dumb articles posted about recent events - above all, the Refugee Crisis and the Pari...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Guest post: The Paris attacks and the abuse of history, by Mark Humphries

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[ This is an important post in many ways. The least significant is that it is the first guest post I have ever had on Historian on the Edge...
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Ethnic Transformations: A Rider

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Although I had bumbled my own way to the conclusions reached in the previous article about the context for Æthelberht's Laws, Patrick W...
Friday, 23 October 2015

The Ethnic Transformations of the Year 600 (A preliminary sketch): Part 2.

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[ Here is the second instalment of my thinking about ethnic change around 600.  As you will see, it is largely consists of somewhat rambli...