Conclusion

Knowledge of the past, so Connerton argues in How Societies Remember, is instrumental in our understanding of the present and as such shapes our experience of the world around us by connecting our present to past events which we have not experienced but which still bear on us and the world we live in. But is the reverse perhaps not also true? If we need to understand the past to understand the present, do we not also need to understand the present or the particular moment in time which has created a particular representation of the past to understand its historical narrative

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