Marnie Hughes-Warrington. Photo by Belinda Pratten.
Who has the right to write history? Is it the video makers of YouTube, the academics, or everyone else in between? Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, renowned history theorist and new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), enjoys the big questions about what, when, why and who to believe. By MARTYN PEARCE. In a simple world, there would be one history. Each year we would update it with a full and honest account of everything that happened in that year, from global politics to the fashion in neck ties and everything in between. We would all agree on what was important and what was not, how those things were described, and who described them. That book, which we all passionately agreed on, would be our history. One neat, organised, tidy little package - the undisputed voice of seven billion.
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