How the Cold War Shaped Western Democracy with Simon Reid-Henry: Sources and surprises while writing

The transcript discusses the complexities of writing contemporary history, emphasizing the importance of selecting diverse sources and maintaining critical distance. It highlights how technology, like social media, provides new historical sources. The narrative process is likened to discovering unexpected historical paths, and the importance of revisiting past events, such as the 1970s, is stressed to understand current political phenomena like Brexit and Trump.

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