How long?

[Best Guess]

When I was studying history at school the formation of the Welfare State after WWII was the latest period we studied. But what I would like to know is how long ago does an event need to have happened to officially be considered part of history? Does such a definition exist?

This was touched on in 2006 by a previous post but didn't really answer the question. Do any new AB users have a view / answer?

[Dinosaur2]

Yesterday or even earlier today. All narratives, descriptions and explanations that deal with past events however recent, are history.

[dot.hawkes]

I did a history degree in the late 1990s and we studied European Culture in the 1960s and it was wierd, we were studying a period i had lived through!! It was great in seminars though being able to explain why the incidents in prague in 1968 only affected me cos Robert vaughn had been caught up in the troubles as he was filming a protectors episode there at the time and it was one of my fave shows. the stuff going on in the world was seen in black and white too, whioch the younger students couldn't quite grasp.