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Thread #156062 Message #3679774
Posted By: GUEST,of 18 Nov 14 - 11:17 AM.
25-Nov-14 - 03:24 AM
Thread Name: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Subject: RE: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
The 'only one history' view cannot be relied on in a discussion that may cross education systems (e.g. the internet). I was taught, quite clearly, that history was the things and actual events, not someone's interpretation or a narrative put together at a later time from a particular perspective.
However, in some places it is taught that 'history' is the historian's narrative, not the actual events. So you can have "A history of ..." - note the indenfinite article.
In either case what we read cannot be relied on as a correct account of past events.