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  • The Nature of Modern History: Constructing, Contesting and Investigating the Past

The Nature of Modern History: Constructing, Contesting and Investigating the Past

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Key information
Cost $170 per class (up to 30 students) Duration One school period Curriculum links Stage 6: Preliminary Modern History, Investigating Modern History – The Nature of Modern History: The Contestability of the Past, the Construction of Modern History

Using source analysis and critical historiography, this workshop puts the history of the Holocaust into a wider context of historical thinking.

Depending on your choice of focus, our educators will put together a seminar that addresses memorialisation and memorial spaces, the means by which historians construct modern history, and the manner in which the historical record remains subject to debate.

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