Forum: The Reality of History

Ronald Hutton celebrates of the role of imagination in the writing of history.

The present generation of physicists has become accustomed to the notion of anti-matter as a useful conceptual tool for the discussion of the relationship between matter and energy. Perhaps contemporary historians could gain comparable benefit from the idea of anti-history, to define not a logical opposite but the reality of much of their own writing.

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