HistoryBook · 1961
What Is History?
E.H. Carr
Carr's Trevelyan Lectures, delivered at Cambridge between January and March 1961, ask what a historical fact is, how far individuals rather than societies drive events, and whether history is a science, whether it is moral, and whether it shows progress. The link is the Penguin edition.
Why you should read this
This is the classic short course in historiography, built from Carr's 1961 Cambridge lectures, arguing that historical facts are never neutral but selected and shaped by the historian asking the questions. It suits readers starting out in historical method rather than those looking for a narrative history.
- Field
- History
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1961
- Themes
- HistoriographyHistory
