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The Control of the Past Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History

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Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) was one of the earliest and strongest critics of what he saw as the British government's attempts to control the past through the writing of so-called, 'official histories'. His famous diatribe against the 'pitfalls' of government-mandated his...

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Main Author: Salmon, Patrick (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: London University of London Press 2021
Series:IHR Shorts
Subjects:
Historiography
Herbert Butterfield
Nazi
collective memory
World War 2
archive
GLAM
museum
Duke of Windsor
Hitler
Britain
colonial history
India
Germany
Ireland
Bletchley Park
suppressed history
forgotten history
war crimes
jingosim
national histories
National Trust
slavery
education
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