Coming to Terms with the Past
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Markus Bauer hopes that Romania’s membership of the European Union will enable it to face down the ghosts of its troubled twentieth-century past. |
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Michael Simmons has been back to Budapest as it prepares to commemorate the anniversary of the 1956 Uprising, and finds many questions still unanswered. |
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Gary Baines explains that the ANC government has institutionalized memories of the Soweto uprising in its efforts to build a new national identity in South Africa.
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 Kendrick Oliver revisits the scene of a massacre that became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam war. |
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Rachel Sieder considers the role of ‘memory politics’ in Guatemala’s uncertain path to democracy as government and society attempt to come to terms with the brutality of the counter-insurgency war. |
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Ben Kiernan points out the progress, and difficulties, in recovering history and justice after genocide. |
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Latha Menon deplores the effects of religious extremism on Indian society and the writing of history.
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Richard English argues that historians have a practical and constructive role to play in today’s Ulster. |
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Dejan Djokic pinpoints the baleful influences of historical distortion and myth in a troubled area.
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Helen Graham reveals the key role historians are playing in the aftermath of Franco’s ‘Uncivil Peace’.
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 Ann Matear examines the continuing pursuit of justice after Pinochet’s dictatorship. |
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Rikki Kersten extols the example of an unlikely hero, the historian Ienaga Saburo, who singlehandedly challenged Japan’s official view of responsibility for its behaviour in the Second World War.
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David Cesarani examines the effects of a long history on a new nation state. |
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Steve Smith shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past. |
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Peter Furtado introduces the series. |
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