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Family History: Some new directions and their implications for the archivistWritten history, defined by Carl Berger as "a self-conscious effort to establish the meaning of experience for the present",1 is not what it was.There was a time when we could safely place the past behind us as a closed register of great and small events occurring sequentially through time, which the historian might fashion into literature or into a treatize designed to validate an interpretation of the march of time and the progress of humanity.History, whether academic or popular, was essentially created to be read with or without the help of illustrations, as a pursuit of the mind and the intellect.History was something other people wrote for our enlightenment of entertainment, which we accepted more or less passively, and found to be of absorbing interest or a deadly bore according to our predilections and the skill of the author.In whatever guise, history had to be read or laid aside.At best it sharpened our judgement, aesthetic sense and critical ability; at worst we learnt it by rote to regurgitate answers in examinations without any sense of commitment or personal contribution.
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