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Meet these amazing thinkers who will help you to understand TOK, challenge your assumptions and about the world, and provide you with ideas to support exhibition commentary discussions.

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Mary Beard is a British classicist, historian, and broadcaster, whose work focuses on ancient history and the importance of studying the past. Check out her TED Talk, The public voice of women

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Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and author, whose work explores the intersection of history, technology, and human evolution. His TED Talk is entitled, Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it

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Gerda Lerner was an Austrian-American historian who pioneered women's history as a vital aspect of historical analysis.

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Howard Zinn was an American historian, who challenged traditional historical narratives and promoted people's history.

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Thucydides is regarded as one of the fathers of history because he was, along with Herodotus, the first writer to collect evidence systematically, and use it to support his narrative accounts of what happened in the past. He is worth comparing and contrasting to his Greek peer.

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Taylor was an Oxford historian who wrote extensively on aspects of 19th century and 20th century European political history. From an early age, Taylor was brilliant and rebellious, and both of these traits are highly visible in his revisionist ideas on the causes of the Second World War, which shattered the historical paradigm of the time.

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Santayana was a Spanish-American pragmatist philosopher and writer. His views on history, and the necessity of learning it, can be summed up by his famous maxim: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

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Said was a Palestinian writer and historian, who wrote extensively on on post-colonialism, and the way in which the ‘west’ perceives the ‘east’.

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Marx was a German economist, historian, socialist, and philosopher. He is, of course, best known for his phiolsophy of Marxism, which proposed that human societies develop via a social struggle between different interest groups.

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Levin is a historian who specializes in the American Civil War, and the history of Confederate monuments. He is one of our knowledge heroes, helping us to explore how the way in which opposing sides seek to win the war over history, and how that is the most significant struggle.

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Herodotus is regarded as one of the fathers of history because he was, along with Thucydides, the first writer to collect evidence systematically, and use it to support his narrative accounts of what happened in the past.

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Gaddis is an American ‘Cold War’ historian whose developing views on what caused the conflict typify how historical opinion changes as a result of new evidence being discovered.

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Churchill was a soldier, politician, writer, and historian. He was the British leader during the Second World War. He is one of our knowledge heroes, helping us to explore how history is written, and by whom.

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Carr was a British historian, journalist, and left-wing thinker, whose 14 volume history of Russia was still unfinished at the time of his death. He is one of our knowledge heroes, helping us to explore how to pursue history (and other areas of knowledge) in an objective way.