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What history should we be teaching in Britain in the 21st century
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Starkey, David |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | So what I am going to say now is not laudator temporis acti. I am not blind; I do not think that all was perfect in the past. We have been properly enjoined to a critical attitude of the past including our own. So do not think, then, that I am just saying that things were always better. Because remember, outside the academy, history is an unbelievably successful subject. Now surely that has got to be our starting point? If you look at the sales of history books, they are usually right at the top of the non-fiction bestsellers, apart from handbooks. If you look, and here you will forgive me if I boast, at my Six Wives of Henry VIII, (1) it got 4.5 million viewers, the largest ever audience for that sort of serious documentary; Elizabeth was a number one bestseller in hardback and paperback. (2) The largest sales of any book in recent years have been Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad – even more than Berlin. (3) Simon Schama’s books sell reliably well, and now there is Niall Ferguson snapping at our ankles. So, in the world outside academic halls, history is doing very, very well. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/4314/1/What_history_should_we_be_teaching_in_Britain_in_the_21st_century.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
