Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon
Lisa Jardine talks about the writing of history with David Cannadine, Margaret MacMillan, Aleksandar Hemon and Ed Vulliamy.
On Start the Week Lisa Jardine asks whether the writing of history has been dominated by conflict and difference. The Professor of History, David Cannadine argues against the predominant 'them and us' agenda, and for a common humanity. While the Balkan writer Aleksandar Hemon splits his life between Sarajevo and Chicago. Ed Vulliamy reported on the war in Bosnia and explores a journalist's role in historical events, and Margaret MacMillan discusses the teaching of history.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
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David Cannadine
Sir David Cannadine is an historian and Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University.
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The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences is published by Allen Lane.
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Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan is an historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St Antony's College.
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Turning Out the Lights will be published by Profile Books in the autumn.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon is a writer.
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The Book of My Lives is published by Picador.
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Ed Vulliamy
Ed Vulliamy is a journalist.
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The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning is out now in paperback, published by Vintage Books.
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Broadcasts
- Mon 18 Mar 2013 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Mon 18 Mar 2013 21:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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