The History Wars

The Role of the Past in British Politics Today
dc.contributor.lecturerEvans, Richard J.
dc.contributor.organizedByArbeitskreis Großbritannien-Forschung / German Association for British Studies
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-14T08:38:52Z
dc.date.available2022-06-14T08:38:52Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractMinisters and supporters of Boris Johnson's government have been lining up to condemn the „rewriting“ of British history and what they see as attempts to impose a single, „politically correct“ version of it on public discourse and institutions such as the National Trust and the Royal Botanic Gardens, among others. This lecture argues that a far greater threat to open debate about British history, the empire, the role of slavery and other sensitive subjects is posed by the government's continuing attempts to control and in some cases suppress research into these topics in the interests of imposing its own, supposedly patriotic version of the British past in a range of areas in public life.en_US
dc.description.urlhttp://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-113438en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2003
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.eventLocationonlineen_US
dc.relation.eventStart2021-10-28
dc.rightsL::CC BY-NC-ND 4.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:320en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:900en_US
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldhistoryen_US
dc.subject.fieldbritishstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldpoliticalscienceen_US
dc.titleThe History Warsen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Role of the Past in British Politics Todayen_US
dc.typelectureen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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