History and the Media

MELVYN BRAGG Novelist and Broadcaster TAYLOR DOWNING Writer and Independent Television Producer MAX HASTINGS Writer and Historian TRISTRAM HUNT Writer and Historian, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK JEREMY ISAACS Independent Television Producer IAN KERSHAW Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield, UK DAVID PUTTNAM Film Producer SIMON SCHAMA University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University, New York, USA JEAN SEATON Professor of Media History, University of Westminster, London, UK ROGER SMITHER Keeper of the Film and Video Archives, Imperial War Museum, London, UK JOHN TUSA Managing Director of the Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK

Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Cannadine Bringing the Past to the Small Screen; T.Downing Television and the Trouble with History; S.Schama All Our Yesterdays; J.Isaacs Why is so much Television History about War?; R.Smither The Adventure of Making 'The Adventure of English'; M.Bragg How Does Television Enhance History?; T.Hunt Hacks and Scholars: Allies of a Kind; M.Hastings The Past on the Box: Strengths and Weaknesses; I.Kershaw A Deep and Continuing Use of History; J.Tusa Writing the History of Broadcasting; J.Seaton Has Hollywood Stolen Our History?; D.Puttnam Index