Living History is a way of publishing history as a living organism rather than a finished monument. At the centre is a Core: the name, meaning, and identity of the subject, held as a simple anchor that can be re-seen as the evidence grows. The Core is not just a title; it is a continually refreshed visual representation that evolves as the archive evolves, like a changing coat-of-arms made from citations, places, dates, relationships, and recurring themes. Around that Core we cultivate a ring of Empathetic Narratives: multiperspectival first-person accounts written by many authors, each attempting to inhabit the subject’s world with care and restraint. These narratives are allowed to differ, contradict in feeling, and diverge in interpretation, because human interiority is not a single track. What matters is that each narrative is honest about its choices and is intimately hyperlinked to the evidence landscape it leans on. Surrounding the narratives is a distinct Hard History layer: the contested facts, primary sources, transcripts, records, and period reporting that we can point to, argue over, and re-check. This Hard History ring is explicitly forked from similarly named pages in the Anarchive, so the living guide remains connected to a shared commons of source material while still allowing local editorial judgement, annotation, and dispute. The separation is visual and structural: you can always tell whether you are reading the Core, an Empathetic Narrative, or a contested fact claim, even as you jump between them in one click. When these rings are assembled—Core, Empathetic Narratives, and Hard History—they become a Living Guide: a historical publication that can grow without dissolving into chaos. The guide stays readable because the Core keeps it oriented. It stays humane because the narratives keep it felt. It stays honest because the Hard History layer keeps it accountable. Over time the bundle becomes a reusable pattern for Rewilding History: a way to keep myth, memory, and evidence in creative tension, without pretending they are the same thing. # See - Rewilding History and Living Guide - Empathetic Narratives - Anarchive and the Hard History Archive