The form of narrative addresses the human need to live in time, to express ‘historicality’, which refers to the urge to reach back into our past to change our future and see our life as a whole. Historicality, for Ricoeur, is the way we grasp our most basic potentialities as individuals and collectives by repetition or recollection that guides or

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Art and photography give you a snapshot of a time and place, a detailed idea of what it would have been like to be there. Narratives and timelines make history coherent and interesting by hijacking our love of stories. Maps provide a large-scale overview of an entire period, joining together distinct narratives.