WHAT COLOUR ARE THE UNICORNS?

Professor Steve Rigby, recently retired from the University of Manchester, delivered ‘Historical Causation: Is One Thing More Important Than Another?' to the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on 29^th November 2010.  His lecture gives a fascinating introduction to the philosophy of historical causation, looking at the views of Marxist and non-Marxist historians, and those of John Stuart Mill.  It also addresses the implications of theories of historical causation on the way history is taught to students