What are the difficulties facing a Historian?
Historiography is fraught with pitfalls particularly when faced with a lack of archaeological evidence, written sources, popular mythology and a reliance on memory. During the first Lockdown, I started to write an article exploring my own issues relating to the problems of writing one's own Historical accounts. The article had been placed on the backburner for many months but now I am in a position to complete my blog post regarding the matter. History is a subject that has interested me as far back as I can remember. Indeed, I can remember, as a child, being outraged how the Bash street kids, Minnie the Minx and Dennis the Menace, in my comic books, would fall asleep whenever their teacher started delivering a lesson on History. To me, History was one of the most interesting and important lessons on the curriculum. A conviction I have stuck with right up to the present day. I must state that I am an amateur Historian. I have not published a paper...