The Relevance of History

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G. S. R. KITSON CLARK
A remarkable study of the way in which historical truth is revealed, accidentally distorted and deliberately perverted. Dr. Kitson Clark analyses the methods by which historical evidence is built up and compares the nature of historical proof with that of other disciplines such as the law and the natural sciences.
. . the offering of a great scholar reflecting magisterially on the skills of his craft. The balance and lucidity of its statements should make it compulsory reading for those to whom it is dedicated: 'all those who, whether in school, or college, have the great responsibility of teaching history'."
The Times'Educational Supplement
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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
This SSRC review of current research offers a survey of new methods and areas of study in social and economic history. It also looks at the relationship between the work of economic and social historians, and the work in allied fields of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

G. S. R. KITSON CLARK
A remarkable study of the way in which historical truth is revealed, accidentally distorted and deliberately perverted. Dr. Kitson Clark analyses the methods by which historical evidence is built up and compares the nature of historical proof with that of other disciplines such as the law and the natural sciences.
. . the offering of a great scholar reflecting magisterially on the skills of his craft. The balance and lucidity of its statements should make it compulsory reading for those to whom it is dedicated: 'all those who, whether in school, or college, have the great responsibility of teaching history'."
The Times'Educational Supplement
tlesearch in Economic and Social History
fvf
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
This SSRC review of current research offers a survey of new methods and areas of study in social and economic history. It also looks at the relationship between the work of economic and social historians, and the work in allied fields of economists and sociologists. Apart from a discussion of important theoretical issues the book contains a most valuable bibliographical survey of important recent work by British historians.
Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.
THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORY
This book affirms the relevance of history, above all as a medium of education: in formal terms, and also in terms of educating laymen to a greater understanding of contemporary issues and problems that directly concern them. It suggests that because very many professional historians reject 'relevance' the subject is facing decline. The authors show how history's relevance for contemporary society and its value as a medium of instruction were formerly among its main characteristics. But the 'professional approach', which dominates the practice of history today and dates only from the last century, identifies history with 'the past', deliberately divorced from 'the present' and studied 'for its own sake'. The authors reject the professional approach, primarily on practical grounds.
Further, although history was established in English universities owing specifically to its presumed relevance as a medium of education, professional historians regard themselves as scholars rather than as educators. The authors assert the relevance of a 'contemporary approach', re-establishing history as a medium of education in the broadest sense. This requires a greater awareness by professional historians of their responsibilities to society as a whole, and much more serious and concerted application to their role as teachers. continued on back flap
Aiore relevant methods of teaching histor)^ are suggested. In short, in this book the authors call for an approach to histor)^ that is relevant to the changing circumstances of historical studies themselves, of the institutions in which they are pursued, and of the society which those institutions exist to serve.
THE AUTHORS
The authors are colleagues in the History Department at Hull University. Gordon Connell-Smith is a graduate and doctor of London University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of Forerunners of Drake: A Study of English Trade with Spain in the Early Tudor Period (1954); Pattern of the Post-War World{i<)3 7); and The Inter-American System (1966). The latter has been published in an enlarged, Spanish-language edition in Mexico (1971). He is at present completing an historical analysis of relations between the United States and Latin America. Howell A. Lloyd is a graduate and sometime Fellow of the University of Wales and a doctor of the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Gentry of South-West Wales, 1540-1640 (1968), and has just completed a book entitled The Rouen Campaign which analyses international political and military affairs in the last decade of the sixteenth century. Both the authors have conducted extensive historical research in English and foreign archives, and have contributed articles and reviews to learned journals in this country and abroad.
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