![a particular video footage does not play sound on timeline but the rest dose a particular video footage does not play sound on timeline but the rest dose](https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-19-at-9.40.54-AM.png)
Whig history… presents the past as an inevitable progression towards ever greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in modern forms of liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy. Wikipedia has an excellent opening definition of Whig history: The word has many uses (social progress, technological progress), but the reason it raises red flags for historians is the legacy of Whig history, a school of historical thought whose influence still percolates through many of our models of history. Progress - change for the better over historical time. This is a historian’s succinct if somewhat technical way of asking a question which lies at the back of a lot of the questions people are wrestling with now. “How do you discuss progress without getting snared in teleology?” a colleague asked during a teaching discussion. Part 1: The Question of Progress As Historians Ask It Two threads, which I will later bring together.
#A PARTICULAR VIDEO FOOTAGE DOES NOT PLAY SOUND ON TIMELINE BUT THE REST DOSE HOW TO#
That’s why I don’t presume to predict - history is a lesson in complexity not predictability - but what I do feel I’ve learned to understand, thanks to my studies, are the mechanisms of historical change, the how of history’s dynamism rather than the what next. So, in the middle of so many discussions of the causes of this year’s events (economics, backlash, media, the not-so-sleeping dragon bigotry), and of how to respond to them (petitions, debate, fundraising, art, despair) I hope people will find it useful to zoom out with me, to talk about the causes of historical events and change in general. But on the ground it must have felt exactly the same, the real peace and those blips.
![a particular video footage does not play sound on timeline but the rest dose a particular video footage does not play sound on timeline but the rest dose](https://gijn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OjoExcessVaccines-771x517.png)
![a particular video footage does not play sound on timeline but the rest dose a particular video footage does not play sound on timeline but the rest dose](https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screenshot79_photos_v2_x4.png)
I keep thinking about what it felt like during the Wars of the Roses, or the French Wars of Religion, during those little blips of peace, a decade long or so, that we, centuries later, call mere pauses, but which were long enough for a person to be born and grow to political maturity in seeming-peace, which only hindsight would label ‘dormant war.’ But then eventually the last flare ended and then the peace was real. I feel the same shock, fear, overload, emotional exhaustion that so many are, but at the same time another me is analyzing, dredging up historical examples, bigger crises, smaller crises, elections that set the fuse to powder-kegs, elections that changed nothing. There is a strange doubleness to experiencing an historic moment while being a historian one’s self. Check Enable Javascript (or Java) in the main panel and press OK.Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Is it fragile? Is it possible? Is it a problematic concept in the first place? Many people are reexamining these kinds of questions as 2016 draws to a close, so I thought this would be a good moment to share the sort-of “zoomed out” discussions the subject that historians like myself are always having. You can check or uncheck both Java and Javascript here.įirefox users should go to the Tools menu and select Options. In Safari, go to the Safari menu and choose Preferences. To enable Java, click the Java link in the Web Content section. Close this window and click the Refresh button of the page requiring Javascript. Make sure that the checkbox next to Enable Scripting is checked.Ĭlick the OK button. Select the Web Content bullet from the list on the left hand side of the window.įind the Active Content section. If you are told you don't have permission to make these changes, contact your computer's administrator, or technical support.įind the Preferences option on the Explorer menu. Now try selecting another link to video or audio from the site. Look for the entry near the bottom of the list which says Scripting, then Active Scripting and make sure 'enabled' is the option selected under Active Scripting. Make sure the Internet Zone is highlighted and press the Custom Level button to open the security options. Go to the Tools menu in IE and choose Internet Options. To turn JavaScript on, try contacting your computer's administrators, or follow the instructions for your browser type below: If you are encountering problems this could be because you have JavaScript turned off. Welcome to Video and Audio from BBC News.