Time is complicated and multifaceted, existing and operating at many different levels. "The time of our lives," as Keith Ansell-Pearson observes, "is not only an existential issue but also, amongst other things, a political one, a task for phenomenology to work through, a task for genealogy to complicate, and a problem for hermeneutics to decipher and interpret" (Ansell-Pearson 2011, 1). Through the course of the book, I have drawn on all of these different approaches, investigating some of the different layers and strands of historical time. Historical time, I have argued, is operated through the practice of tracing the past, configuring historical narratives, mapping timelines, and constructing generational affiliations. These historical practices allow us to connect diffuse presents, pasts, and futures, and thus enable concepts and cultures of historical time to come into being. They are ways of both "making" time, and "reckoning" with time.