What Isn't History?
eBook - ePub

What Isn't History?

Selected Articles and Speeches on Writing History and Historical Fiction

  1. 163 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What Isn't History?

Selected Articles and Speeches on Writing History and Historical Fiction

About this book

An award-winning historian's guide to writing about history, in both fiction and nonfiction.
 
Is history absolute? Is writing about the past an exact science, or is it more of a nebulous discipline open to different interpretations and points of view? These are important questions that noted historian Ian Mortimer says all serious writers of history must reflect on.
 
This new collection explores those ideas, providing an analysis on how the immensity of chronicling the past lends itself to a wide variety of audiences and contexts. Mortimer teaches that the purpose of history goes beyond simply relaying events of yesterday—it is about finding the meaning and conveying it to living and future generations. It is up to the audience to determine what history means to them, and it is up to the historian—or historical fiction writer—to determine what is and what isn't history.
 
What Isn't History? collects together for the first time the selected articles and speeches on writing history and historical fiction from Ian Mortimer, the bestselling author of Edward III: The Perfect King, The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, and other popular titles, acclaimed as "the most remarkable medieval historian of our time" ( The Times, London).
 

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Information

Publisher
RosettaBooks
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9780795350535
Subtopic
Historiography

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Originality in History
  7. 2. The Paris Catacombs
  8. 3. What Isn’t History?
  9. 4. The Historian as Virtual Time Traveller
  10. 5. History in Education
  11. 6. Breaking the Evidence Barrier
  12. 7. Wikipedia and the Ship of Fools
  13. 8. The Art of History
  14. 9. Historical Novelists Should Not Be Ashamed of Telling Lies
  15. 10. Why Historians Should Write Fiction
  16. 11. Creative Non-Fiction
  17. 12. Twelve Hints for Writing History for the General Public
  18. 13. The Importance of Archives
  19. 14. The Problems of Visiting the Past in Fact and Fiction
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Other works by Ian Mortimer
  22. Endnotes

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