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History in 2021, with Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sixty years ago EH Carr’s groundbreaking book, What is History?, explored how we should study the past. Now his great-granddaughter, Helen Carr, has teamed up with Suzannah Lipscomb to edit a new volume, What is History, Now?. Here, they discuss the importance and challenges of writing history in the 21st century.   (Ad) Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb are the editors of What is History, Now? (Orion, 2021). Preorder it now from Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/what-is-history-now/suzannah-lipscomb/helen-carr/9781474622455 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. And remember, it's just between us. Hey Ryan, that was a fast trip. It was like you teleported. Yeah, just got in. I'll get all my expenses logged, I promise. Oh, no, you're okay. SAP Concur uses advanced AI so your expense report will practically write itself.

0:38.5

Quite the breakthrough. Just got in. I'll get all my expenses logged, I promise. Oh, no, you're okay. SAP Concur uses advanced AI,

0:40.5

so your expense report will practically write itself.

0:41.4

Quite the breakthrough.

0:43.5

It's like we've been teleported into the future.

0:44.5

All right.

0:47.0

So, just curious, would you give us written permission to convert your matter into energy patterns

0:48.9

and reassemble you at, say, random travel destinations?

0:51.6

Margaret, are you building a teleporter?

0:53.7

No, yes.

0:55.5

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0:58.5

Learn more at Concur.com.

1:09.9

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

1:22.6

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. In 1961, the historian E.H. Carr published a book, What is History?

1:32.2

Which explored the act of studying the past and debated whether it's possible to have an objective view of history.

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