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Key Ideas in ‘Is History Fiction’

Is History Fiction gives the reader a deeper insight of how to view and record history and how to grasp an understanding of what the interpretations of history are. Chapter four, titled ‘History, science and art’ discusses ideas on how historians in the past have recorded history and whether it should be considered as a science or an art. The idea of history being categorised as a science began with the views of the father of modern professional history, Leopold von Ranke. His views since then received a diverse reception from historians. Chapter 5, ‘Has History Meaning?’ looks at what historians define as history. The significance of history is a key focus in chapter 5 as is establishing similarities of records throughout history from the ancient and post-modern periods

Ranke influenced and changed the way that historians chose to write about history with his views of History as a science. Ranke stated in 1824 that for Historians......

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