Past Mistakes

“Whatever the genuine lessons of history, policymakers constantly make opportunistic use of the past to justify their decisions. Matthew Reisz introduces a team of historians who are fighting back against the ‘Bad History’ all around us

Like everybody else, historians disagree violently about “the lessons of history”. Some think there aren’t any. And even among those who believe that the past is clearly relevant to the present, many are scrupulous about letting other people draw their own moral lessons. Others are happy to state, and underline, what the lessons are.”

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Take Part and Create Art

Maybe the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ phenomenon has passed into being passe – what do we think? I still like it, but then I would, as I’ve been interested in the subject long before it became popular, but have a much wider interest in the subject in general, and look forward to one day publishing my book before someone else pinches everything I wrote in my PhD (which is in a number of libraries, including the British Library), but I have recently come across this collection from ‘Remarks from Sparks‘, and I like them…