Many people consume bits of History as part of the entertainment industry, from costume dramas to how people lived ‘then’. Michael Burleigh wants to explore a much wider sample of how History impacts on the present, from national stories/mythologies to inapt historical analogies. Can there be too much remembering? Would amnesia be better? Not forgetting the role of governments in shaping mental maps of the past and attempts to ‘apply’ the ‘lessons’ of history to policy. The lecture will include discussion of China and Russia as well as the rest of Europe.
Michael Burleigh delivers the third LSE IDEAS Engelsberg Chair Lecture of 2019/20. It was originally scheduled to be held at LSE on 17 March 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lecture will be made live on YouTube at 1pm BST on Friday 3 July which you can watch via this link: https://youtu.be/KnqoK-gWHME.
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