Doing History

History for Peace
Mar 11
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Updated: Apr 18

Two decades back, History was something we learned. In 2026 History is something we ‘claim’.

History for Peace in association with The Community Library Project, New Delhi, is undertaking a new public history initiative led by Professors Aparna Vaidik and Apoorvanand. With interactive sessions and workshops on the historical craft, this public history series aims to take conversations about history outside the classroom, to expand the consciousness of citizens and to create a critical public sphere.

We imagine this series to reach beyond a research talk/lecture, as more of a ‘process’ talk where facilitators take us through the messy research process of historical argumentation and practice. The sessions aim to catalyse conversations about how historians write history, the ways in which they collect and analyse sources, how something gets constituted as a 'fact' and what goes into writing history books. We want introspection at an individual level on not just ‘what history is’, but on how we are receiving what we are being told is history—in our classrooms and in the public domain.