recent past
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?