How is COVID-19 reworking how we research and write history? (Martin Moore)

By Martin Moore

Historians are as much a product of their particular time and place as the subjects we study. Our interpretations of the past are inescapably shaped by our biographical, social and cultural relations, as well as by our material circumstances. Given the way in which the pandemic has remade the way we are able to work and how we see ourselves and our relationships to each other, this blog explores the way in which it is inevitably rewriting history as well.