Tag Archives: historiography

the scythians at the british museum

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Houyhnhnm

interesting to think about the contrast between the rich, immersive environment created by the exhibition’s curators and the paucity of hard evidence of how the scythians actually lived their lives – so many conclusions are based on guesswork from knowledge … Continue reading →

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“Re-thinking History” by Keith Jenkins

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Houyhnhnm

This is a short book bought on impulse at the wonderful bookshop in Wemyss Bay station, the ferry port for Bute, on the south side of the Clyde estuary down Glasgow. I think at the time I’d just read Richard Evans’ In … Continue reading →

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“In Defence of History” by Richard Evans

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Houyhnhnm

Evans seems at first to imply he’s replacing, and steering midway between, E.H. Carr and Sir Geoffrey Elton, and defending History against all things post-modern, but ends up steering midway between post-modernism and ‘traditional’ history. The Afterword, added for this … Continue reading →

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