The Historiographical Value of Historians’ Autobiographies
Jul 14, 2022•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
In this episode, Dr Jaume Aurell talks about the value of twentieth-century
historians’ autobiographies as intellectual artefacts of historiographical
and academic intervention. He traces a trend in autobiographies throughout
the twentieth century to move from a documentary to an interventional
perspective and uncovers what he means by the term “interventional
historians”.
Dr Jaume Aurell is Professor at the Department of History at the University
of Navarra in Spain. His research focusses on medieval and modern
historiography. In 2019, he published his book Theoretical Perspectives on
Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention with
Routledge.
