we all know now what it means. it s a serious point what it can mean to your life to get it. that is what the science says. novak djokovic says he has a different opinion. i m interested what you thought of the statement he put out? when he first tried to explain this on that instagram posting, it gave us more questions than answers. now this statement seemed to have a different tone. it did seem to be more conciliatory and take the temperature down a bit. i want to again explain the context. melbourne victoria, the victorians, i stant to be corrected, i m not sure there s been a more locked down state, city in the world than melbourne. they went hard. they went early and they were locked down for months and months. so the image of a sports person who everybody thought couldn t come because he was vaxxed suddenly putting out an instagram saying, i m coming. that did not sit well with the victorians and it didn t sit
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Wednesday 7 April 2021, 05:39 PM (AEST) The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they d like an expert to answer. Zoe, age 10, wants to know how history is written and who writes it. An expert explains. Thinking about who writes history is very important if we want to figure out how it is written. Lots of things influence how we see the world. This includes our education, where we come from, whether we are male or female, rich or poor. All these things affect how historians write the history of people, families, communities and societies in the past.
How is history written and who writes it? – Zoe, aged ten, Glasgow, Scotland
Thinking about who writes history is very important if we want to figure out how it is written. Lots of things influence how we see the world. This includes our education, where we come from, whether we are male or female, rich or poor. All these things affect how historians write the history of people, families, communities and societies in the past.
For a long time, the people who wrote history were mostly educated men: from the “father of history”, the ancient Greek Herodotus who lived over 2000 years ago, to medieval monks such as the Englishman Bede, and 20th-century university professors like Eric Hobsbawm. Often, they wrote histories about great men, great wars, and empires that set out to conquer the world.