interpretation Archives - Suzannah Lipscomb

A Question of Interpretation

January 28, 2016July 20, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

My latest column for History Today was prompted by an amateur review of a history book that called it 'just an interpretation'. The sheer wrongness of this as criticism (and rightness of this as fact) seemed to me to deserve some serious attention. Here it is: A question of interpretation

A Question of Interpretation

January 9, 2016July 20, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

The public expects historians to deliver authoritative accounts of the past, yet different conclusions can be drawn from the same sources, argues Suzannah Lipscomb in her January 2016 column for History Today. I recently read an amateur review of a history book with which I am familiar, which stated: ‘It is…