My name is Emily Robinson. I’m working on a PhD thesis about British political parties and their sense of the past – their own and that of the nation. Mainly this is about collective identity and the competing histories, memories and myths that go with that. I’m also interested in nostalgia as a political factor.
This often leads me into the realms of the philosophy of history and of ‘the past’ more generally. I want to understand why the past matters to us as much as it does – and why it sometimes makes us shiver…
This blog is an attempt to give myself a space to think all this through. I hope to receive lots of interesting, creative and challenging comments to help me in my quest!
