The Historian And His Facts By Edward Hallet Carr

Historians often come across different evidence on the same subject. However, this does not necessarily mean one would be considered more “correct” than the other. History is recorded through the eyes of the historian and therefore inevitably prone to human error. In the essay “The Historian and His Facts”, Edward Hallet Carr presents to his readers the limitations inherent in the study of history and the relationship between the historian and his or her facts. Carr makes use of historical accounts throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century in attempts to explain a noticeable paradigm shift over time. He then goes on to present three neglected truths about the role of historians. First, Carr believed history was more than just gathering