Tom Griffiths on the art of history writing on RN Books and Arts
Monday 18 July 2016
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Professor Tom Griffiths AO is an examination of the challenges of writing about the past.
Through portraits of fourteen historians, including Inga Clendinnen, Judith Wright, Geoffrey Blainey and Henry Reynolds, Griffiths traces how our understanding of the past has evolved, and what this changing history reveals about us.
Listen to Tom discuss the art of history writing with Michael Cathcart on ABC Radio National's Books and Arts program.