The spring 2018 issue of Index on Censorship magazine takes a special look at how governments and other powers across the globe are manipulating history for their own ends
With: Simon Callow, David Anderson, Omar Mohammed
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Haven’t read it yet, but what a fantastic and important subject. One that people look at too seldom.
History can have a long fuse: it fizzes away under ground, gently with no sign nor spark, but will suddenly flare up, taking people by surprise and, in some cases, significantly influencing events many decades — even centuries — ago. Some recent examples? The influence of ’empire’ and the past of ‘Great’ Britain in influencing the recent EU referendum. The legacy of slavery that still guides US policy on attitudes to and treatment of Black Afro-Americans. And so many more. Add your own…