historians
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I have just come upon the following couplet, concerning a historian’s mistakes:- ‘Others to some faint meaning make pretence But (——–) never deviates into sense.’ Well, the original two-syllabled name fled from my mind, to be replaced by another of similar construction. Starkey! Yes, folks, a couplet entirely suited to him. ‘Others to some faint meaning…
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Maybe Murrey & Blue is not the place to post something that praises Henry VII, but nevertheless it makes interesting reading, if only because a second view shoots a lot of it down in flames. Forty years ago M.J. Tucker wrote an article in History Today. http://www.historytoday.com/sites/default/files/henryvii_court.pdf Tucker praises Henry and cites many great minds of…
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http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/history/the-princes-in-the-tower-54459 Where do I start? “Richard was appointed to look after the children …” – which part of “Lord Protector and Defender OF THE REALM” does the writer not understand? Their maternal family, as was customary, was appointed to “look after” them. Carson’s latest book quotes the National Archives verbatim to demonstrate this point. “Richard…
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Originally posted on The Social Historian: History is the most deeply dishonourable profession there is, at least outside the Square Mile. The basic premise is that people die, and then you denounce them. It’s a bit like being a reverse version of Kim Jong-Un, but with worse hair. For the uninitiated, though, it’s also…
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In the late 80s, I made the acquaintance of a classically trained British actor. Born in Guernsey, he served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was imprisoned in a German prisoner-of-war camp for three years, from 1942 to 1945. Until I learned that he and his fellow prisoners were forced…
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Thanks to Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb and History Today: http://www.historytoday.com/suzannah-lipscomb/code-conduct-historians
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There are two kinds of historian. One kind searches scrupulously for undiscovered sources before writing and the other glibly quotes those that are generally available, even when serious questions have been raised about them. This is the easier approach and some would call it lazy. Most of us know who belongs in which category. Other…
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