The Historiographical Value of Historians’ Autobiographies

In this episode, Dr Jaume Aurell talks about the value of twentieth-century historians’ autobiographies as intellectual artefacts of historiographical and academic intervention. He traces a trend in autobiographies throughout the twentieth century to move from a documentary to an interventional perspective and uncovers what he means by the term “interventional historians”. 

Dr Jaume Aurell is Professor at the Department of History at the University of Navarra in Spain. His research focusses on medieval and modern historiography. In 2019, he published his book Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention with Routledge.