Phronesis

Today I finished a recent volume on history edited by Helen Carr (PhD candidate at Queen Mary University London) and Suzannah Lipscombe (professor of history at University of Roehampton), the former being the great-great-granddaughter of legendary historian E. H. Carr who pioneered the field with his seminal What is History? (1961) . It was only fitting that this new volume, featuring brilliant contributors including Peter Frankopan and Simon Schama, should be entitled What is History, Now? which seeks to expand upon the work that Carr did in the 60s in exposing the nature of historical inquiry as a far more subjective endeavour than had previously been anticipated. In spite of this glowing repertoire for a potentially outstanding book, I found that many of the individual author's political concerns tainted some of the entries, but in a way I did not expect. The issues with this volume, inconsequential as they might be for some, have larger implications for how we do history in the