Time Team's Tony Robinson: A Life in History
Gone Medieval
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The Limits of History
I have a problem with the whole notion of history to be quite honest. The idea that there are these moments is probably not reality anyway. You want to justify your own religion or their religion or the foul things that they did. It's like looking at the news nowadays, deconstruct the news as you go along one day and see how many of those things in the news are actually specially orchestrated events for the news. My thesis is the idea of the news as the news is a fiction and history seems to me that too. In a way archaeology is such a great stab in the dark is that it doesn't really try to do that or not much does it?"
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