The story of the people, by the people

Christopher Silvester

THE ORIGINAL WHAT IS HISTORY? was the published version of the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered by E.H. Carr at the University of Cambridge in early 1961. It was available in a slim Penguin version in 1977 when I prepared for the General History paper in the Oxbridge exam. We Oxbridge candidates all read it, as I recall. It is still Carr’s most accessible book — far more so than his studies of the pre-1929 Soviet state and economy. Having found a free online version recently, I enjoyed it more upon re-reading than I did the first time I read it. In 1985, Juliet Gardiner edited a follow-up book, What is History Today?. This contained contributions from only seven women (including the editor) out of 36 historians and from only one non-white…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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