- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
- Dark Ages
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- Nov 07, 2020
The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
- Nov 07, 2020
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
- Lake
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- Nov 07, 2020