The social function of history: policy, history and twentieth-century science

Presenter: David Edgerton

Published: January 2010

Age: 18-22 and upwards

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Type: Lectures

Source/institution: Royal Society

Historians bring to thinking about science policy a very particular understanding which should be central to policy: historians are trained to know in their bones that the future is unknown and to understand the power of the cheap futurism which characterises the present.