38 The first calender

Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times.

They will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily accumulates.

What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word.

Films, videos, CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will have.

They will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in action.

But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task.