Maybe it's something to do with turning 75, maybe it's just old age catching up, but something set me thinking:
I was born in 1949. To me, anything that happened before the second world war is history. Anything that happened after I started listening, watching and reading the news in about the early to mid 1960s is current affairs. I know that the 1960s are 60 or so years ago and qualify as history, but in my head they are recent events. Is this how others see history and current affairs or is it just me?
BTW The grey area between about 1945 and about 1965 is context dependent, sometimes it's history sometimes it ain't.
History vs Current Affairs
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Re: History vs Current Affairs
Then there's recent history and ancient history.
Yesterday is recent history,1949 is ancient history.
Yesterday is recent history,1949 is ancient history.
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Re: History vs Current Affairs
If it happened, and was concluded, yesterday, then it's history, if if still rambles on then it's current affairs
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Re: History vs Current Affairs
Time is an abstract concept created by humans to monitor their on going decay.
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Re: History vs Current Affairs
Lunchtime, doubly so.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:49 pm Time is an abstract concept created by humans to monitor their on going decay.
Re: History vs Current Affairs
Nice mix of referencesMr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:54 pmLunchtime, doubly so.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:49 pm Time is an abstract concept created by humans to monitor their on going decay.
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Re: History vs Current Affairs
<Henry Ford> One's bunk, the other isn't.</HF>
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
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But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
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Re: History vs Current Affairs
Entirely subjective, of course, but any period of history before we had a lot of the things we take for granted today (stuff like electric light, radio, TV, cars, motorbikes, fridges, freezers, washing machines, trains & planes) is ancient history. Anything my Grandparents, Mum and Dad lived through up to year 2000 is history. Anything from 2000 to yesterday is recent history.
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