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The Amnesia of the British Empire
I didn't understand the basics of Empire to my 40s, but also I'm not an historian. And one thing I didn't understand until I was an adult is that history is argument. But I left school thinking that history was a list of undisputed facts. And that's not true. History is argument based on hard facts. You can make arguments as long as they're based in hard fact. There's no getting over the fact that the Empire is at the heart of a culture war in Britain. It happened with Covid, it happened with Brexit, and it's happening with history. Do you think this book will be seen as part of the culture wars? Yeah, I