You're History! How People Make the Difference

The purpose of this book is to make people think and connect wires, to encourage them to question their own place within the world, to acknowledge personal and collective responsibility and to enable them to feel empowered by discussing a range of situations and issues that have been changed by individuals, groups or pressure of public opinion and by the exertion of rights and choices. This collection of contributions by leading public figures and historians applies the lens of history to enhance our perspective on current affairs. Book jacket.

Richard J. Kelly is a professor and departmental head at the School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies at Kinki University in Osaka, which is one of Japan's largest universities. He specializes in the study of medieval literatures, in particular the Christian prose and poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period (mid 5th to early 12th century) and is an authority on the early English language. He is the author of a number of books as well as several academic papers in books and journals, ranging in content from medieval literature, culture, art and manuscripts to linguistics and textual transmission. His most significant works are Stone, Skin and Silver (1999), The Blickling Homilies (2003) and You're History! How People Make the Difference (2005)