History is one of the most important cultural tools to make sense of one’s situation, to establish identity, define otherness, and explain change. As a consequence, the scientific discipline of history is not only practiced, but the study of historiography has advanced to a thriving field of research. In fact, an impressive amount of theoretical literature on historiography has been brought forward over the past decades. We have learned from studies focussing on the issue of narrativity that historiography is usually imbued with tendentious rhetorical patterns and ‘generic story types’ that significantly influence the selection and interpretation of the ‘sources’ it allegedly relies on.¹ The debate on postmodern history has, particularly through its core notion of ‘master narrative’, once again highlighted the problem of historical ‘truth’ and thereby also problematised the instrumentalisation of historiography for numerous other (non-historiographic) purposes.