Friday, 20 July 2007

A New Credulity of Metanarratives

To know yourself, get to know the dead
Every child should discover the sweep of history - Ben Macintyre

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article2106450.ece

"history is becoming a potpourri of facts crammed into a few key periods, the past as buffet: a few Romans, some Tudor bloodletting, a soupçon of Classical Greece, a taste of Victorian urban squalor, with a massive serving of Nazis, again."

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