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Notable that whilst Robert Jenrick wangs on about history and revisionists for a whole nonsensical column, he never once mentions historians.
This is my main critique of “historians of the future” — what makes you think that people will listen to historians in the future? Nobody listens to historians now.
I have better things to do on a sunny Sunday morning than go through this line-by-line and break it down, not least because I already wrote a piece anticipating all of the “arguments” last summer. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/10/rewriting-history-historians-statue-past
But in terms of saving history from woke militants, I’m afraid you’ve already lost — as in a horror movie, the woke militants are INSIDE THE PROFESSION
I am NOT going through this line-by-line, but I AM saving this chunk to set as a gobbet on some future historiography module. https://twitter.com/chr1s_2_far/status/1350738233576075264
hIStORy sHOuLD bE sTUdIEd nOt ceNSorEd
It’s a good tip, as a writer, to remove from your final draft any sentence that throbs off the page with onanistic smugness, however proud of it you might be
