Session 3: Histories

[Student worksheet | Teacher notes]

• It has been said that “all history is contemporary history” (Croce) and “History tells us more about the person who wrote it than about the people being written about” (Carr).
• In this sense, works of history themselves become sources for later generations of historians!
• In this session, we will look at the three broad interpretations about the course of history that historians have formulated.
  • Whig School
  • Marxist School
  • Annales School

This session makes use of the following two video clips which demonstrate the ideas of accidentalism and determinism respectively.