Reality, identity and empathy: The changing face of social history television

Journal of Social History

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Hunt, Tristram ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of History ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33646512656     PISSN: 00224529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2006.0005     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. Richard Evans, "What is History?-Now" in David Cannadine (ed.), What is History Now? (London, 2002), p. 10
2. David Cannadine, "What is History Now?," in J.S. Morrill (ed.), The Promotion of Knowledge, Proceedings of the British Academy, cxxii (2004), pp.38-9.
3. James E. Cronin, "Memoir, Social History and Commitment," Journal of Social History, 37, 1 (2003), p.230
4. Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes (Abacus, 1994), p.3
5. JCD Clark, Our Shadowed Present (London, 2004), p.4
6. Peter N. Stearns, "Social History Present and Future," Journal of Social History (2003), p.9
7. Jürgen Kocka, "Losses, Gains, and Opportunities: Social History Today," Jounral of Social History (2003), pp.23-24
8. See Roger Smither, "Why is So Much Television History about War?" in David Cannadine (ed.), History and the Media (London, 2004), pp.51-66
9. "History on Television," Broadcast, 3 September 2004, p.20
10. Jürgen Kocka, "Losses Gaina," p.23
11. Jürgen Kocka, "What is Leftist about Social History Today?," Journal of Social History, 29 (1995-96), Supplement: 67
12. For a full critique of the series, see Jon Wilson, "Niall Ferguson's Imperial Passion," History Workshop Journal, Volume 56, Issue 1 (Autumn 2003), pp. 175-183
13. Broadcast, p.20
14. Times Literary Supplement, 14 March 2003
15. For an overview of the programme themes see the accompanying book. Simon Gunn and Rachel Bell, Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl (London, 2001)
16. The Guardian, 13 October 2005
17. Simon Schama, "Television and the Trouble with History," in Cannadine (ed.), History and the Media, p.29
18. Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory (London, 1996), pp. 175-6
19. The National Trust, 2004-Update on our Vision for Learning (London, 2004), p.2
20. Clark, Our Shadowed Present (2004), p.6
21. www.channel4.com/history
22. www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/rheship
23. Blair Worden, "Do We Get the History We Deserve?," Sunday Telegraph, 27 May 2001
24. William Camden, The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (Chicago, 1970), p.6
25. Richard Evans, In Defence of History (London, 1997), p.167