Nostalgia or Nihilism: The Need for Historical Honesty

"This seeming paradox reflects two concurrently pervasive - and strikingly contradictory - perspectives. One is to be engrossed by the past, the other to dispense with it."

The Past is a Foreign Country - Revisited

By David Lowenthal

We are delighted to welcome Catholic author and writer Fiorella de Maria. To find out more about her, and for links to all her titles visit her website:

https://www.fiorellademaria.com/

In this episode we discuss the issues that the modern age has in the ways in interacts with history, from sanitising the past in books and films to tearing down statues.

Works Mentioned:

See No Evil: A Father Gabriel Mystery by Fiorella de Maria 

The Abolition of Women by Fiorella de Maria (written under Fiorella Nash)

Poor Banished Children by Fiorella de Maria

"History Versus the Historians" Lunacy and Letters by G.K Chesterton

The Past is a Foreign Country - Revised Edition by David Lowenthal

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

The Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

"On The Incarnation" Introduction to Athanasius by C.S. Lewis

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis

We'll Never Tell Them by Fiorella de Maria

 

Things We're Enjoying at the Moment

Fiorella: Spending time with family

Rachel: Vanilla Ice-cream Recipe in the Financial Times