... truth. The idea of 'progress' simply suggests that historians are moving towards 'truth'. In order to understand this we have to realise that 'history is less than the past because only a tiny fraction of events have been noted...'1, so to know the truth we, at the very least, have to have all the evidence at hand. Given the fact that this is impossible all historians can do is try to 'progress towards the truth', despite never actually getting there. History is a constantly moving process, historians are in constant debate with each other and with what they have written. This is progressive because no one idea is accepted as authority over another. We can constantly produce newly interpreted versions of events that we may or may not agree with - there is value in that. However we must recognise that we cannot be objective about anything in history and ...

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