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- Title
Forum: The Past, Present, and Futures of Modern British History.
- Authors
Linstrum, Erik; Clarke, Peter; Bingham, Adrian; Black, Lawrence; Langhamer, Claire; Delap, Lucy; Meyer, Jessica; Ortolano, Guy; Pedersen, Susan; Bailkin, Jordanna; Subramanian, Divya
- Abstract
For the first issue of the renamed journal, Modern British History co-editor Erik Linstrum convened a group of scholars to reflect on the past, present, and possible futures of the field. The resulting contributions make no claim to provide a comprehensive or representative survey. Rather, they offer a variety of perspectives on where modern British history has been and where it might be going. Several contributions, written by former editors of Twentieth Century British History , drawn on the history of the journal as a way of thinking about the direction of the field and its subfields. Others consider the place of modern Britain in the wider discipline of history, grappling with questions of temporality and embodiment; the institutional and material contexts of scholarship; the role of national histories in a transnational world; and the response of historical writing to epidemiological, humanitarian, and ecological crisis. The sequence of contributions mirrors the evolution of the journal since its founding in 1990, beginning with political history and gradually encompassing a much broader range of subjects and methodologies as well as an expanded geographical ambit. Here are archive stories, pleas for new subjects, roadmaps for new approaches to old subjects, and attempts to identify master narratives. Taken together, these contributions demonstrate that modern British history has many houses—which is both a sign of intellectual vitality and a challenge for anyone wishing to generalize about the 'state of the field'. If British modernity remains an abundant resource for 'thinking with', its contours and frontiers are tantalizingly up for grabs.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BRITISH history; MODERN history; HISTORIOGRAPHY; TWENTIETH century; WORLD history
- Publication
Twentieth Century British History, 2024, Vol 35, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0955-2359
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/tcbh/hwae004