Tag: Year in Review

  • Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2022

    Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2022

    By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) Last year’s editor-in-chief, Alex White, ended his 2021 Year in Review with the hopeful plea that we may ‘all live in less significant times’. 2022 has failed utterly to comply. The world is still reeling from the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is causing fresh problems for China as the country…

  • Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2021

    Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2021

    By Alex White (@alex_j_white) Historians often struggle to recognise the significance of their own times. Finding trends, transformations and turning points in the archive is one thing, but recognising monumental change in the present can be quite another. Looking back at 2021, however, it already seems clear that the world has had an eventful year.…