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Sarah Irving-Stonebraker: re-enchanting the ahistorical age

In our age of self-invention, we are profoundly disconnected from the history that once gave us identity.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is an Australian historian whose new book Priests of History: stewarding the past in an ahistoric age, says that, in our age of self-invention, modern people are profoundly disconnected from the stories, practises and history that once gave them their identity.

Justin and Belle talk to Sarah about re-enchanting an ahistorical age and about her own journey from atheism to Christianity as a young academic at Cambridge and Oxford in the early 2000s.

Visit Sarah Irving-Stonebraker's web sitehttps://www.stonebraker.com.au/ 

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Christmas offers moment of relief amid global political and economic turmoil

Read Graham Tomlin's article for the Daily Express.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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This was the year of elections. More than 100 countries, including many of the world’s most populous – Brazil, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico – all held national polls in this past year.

Around half of the world’s population voted for new governments during the past 12 months. Yet what difference did it make?