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EP. 05 Winston Churchill

Uncancelled History

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The Over-Specialisation of the General Reader

Over-specialisation means that the people who are keeping the national story and the national truths at heart are the non-specialists. And I do believe there's also such things as the general reader. My friend Simon C. Bagman Tefurier is about to bring out a history of the world. Now, can you imagine any academic that would do that? They would have done 35, 40 years ago,. Professor J.M. Roberts wrote a history ofThe world. But today, it would be impossible to consider such things that people do want to read books like that. Yes. Or Harari's sapiens of history of the whole species. Is it going to be

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