Information Systems History: What is History? What is is History? What is History? … and Why Even Bother with History?

Authors

Antony Bryant, School of Computing and Creative Technologies, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
Alistair Black, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA;
Frank Land, Information Systems and Innovation Group, London School of Economics, London, UK;
Jaana Porra, Department of Decision and Information Sciences, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, USA

Document Type

Editorial

Abstract

Prologue and preamble The views of Collingwood can be summarized as follows. The philosophy of history is concerned neither with ‘the past by itself’ nor with ‘the historian's thought about it by itself’, but with ‘the two things in their mutual relations’. (This dictum reflects the two current meanings of the word ‘history’ – the inquiry conducted by the historian and the series of past events into which he inquires.) Carr (1961: 1l)

DOI

10.1057/jit.2013.3

Recommended Citation

Bryant, Antony; Black, Alistair; Land, Frank; and Porra, Jaana (2013) "Information Systems History: What is History? What is is History? What is History? … and Why Even Bother with History?," Journal of Information Technology: Vol. 28: Iss. 1, Article 1.
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2013.3
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jit/vol28/iss1/1