Is E H Carr considered a "modern" historian/source? (1 Viewer)

[cavanagh604]

Ive been told markers like us to use modern sources, is he modern enough?

 

[CriminallyInsan]

I'd say no, for modern you would want to go with postmodernists and even post-postmodernists. Revisionists and feminists are also quite good. Modern is publications post 2000, even better if post 2010

 

[gee-dee-enn95]

Really? I'd consider E.H. Carr to be a modern historian, along with postmodernists and post-postmodernists. He is believed to have pre-empted postmodernism anyway. If he's not modern, then what is he? Ancient? I hardly think so. Modern should include any historian from around 1950 onwards, which is essentially when EH Carr began writing as a historian.

When you use Carr though, my teacher always advises us to accompany him with Elton, to show the historical debate. Apparently the markers really like it.