What makes an era label stick to a whole population rather than a single decade

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Era names that the people living under them would never have recognised Era labels are usually coined by the generation after the people they describe The same life can be filed under three different era names in three different archives Two countries using different era labels for exactly the same years Century categories are too coarse to date anyone who worked across a turn of the century Why almost no historical figure looks the same to historians at home and abroad How much of a historical figure's surviving image was built by their own propaganda Whig history: the Victorian habit of reading the past as providence slowly working itself out. Filing by century puts a person beside others they never shared a world with The 20th century was a tidy label until historians started arguing about when it ended

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