Jonathan Healey: How Not to Learn from History
17:00 Sun 4 Nov 2012 The Barbour Room
New Generation Thinker
Oxford University historian Jonathan Healey argues that lessons drawn from the past and applied to our own world are meaningless, despite what we are told by best-selling historians and television documentaries.
But, Healey suggests, it is precisely because the past is so foreign that we are able to understand what is so unique about today.
Oxford University historian Jonathan Healey argues that lessons drawn from the past and applied to our own world are meaningless, despite what we are told by best-selling historians and television documentaries.
But, Healey suggests, it is precisely because the past is so foreign that we are able to understand what is so unique about today.
