A very relevant article in the New Statesman recently http://www.newstatesman.com/200512190017
The value of history whether in education or current affairs seems to be an ever growing hot topic. Coinciding with my studies... Its value as a political tool is growing exponentially. Firstly as advances in archive technology and freedom of information provide better access to events in the past. Secondly as we live in fast changing and difficult times where the future is seen with increasing intrepidation; creating an equation between past present and future is a political requisite...
On this particular quote, since history has become more and more politicised and subjective, then history will probably forgive them. After all some historians believe that Hiroshima, Vietnam, etc were justified.
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