we should write a book about what happens when an authoritarian decides to consciously create a historical record that erases what actually happens after they stage a coup! - ThreadSky

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profgabriele.com • 23 days ago

we should write a book about what happens when an authoritarian decides to consciously create a historical record that erases what actually happens after they stage a coup!

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btramel.bsky.social•22 days ago

I think historians should be in charge. Maybe then history wouldn’t keep repeating itself x

keirharper-thorpe.bsky.social•23 days ago

A debate to be had about whether in the age of the internet and social media it is now easier to retain the history or to have it lost or indeed simply 'disproved' by the weight of popularly-backed 'evidence', than it was to remove individuals from photographs to 'correct' history in Orwell's time.