Umm, excuse me, but I’d rather like a Professor of History to know his history. In the late 1940s every government on the continent ran postwar reconstruction as it had run its war effort, as a national mobilisation with the state as the prime planner, arbiter and coordinator. Ministries of planning were not confined to

Those of you familiar with the Horrible Histories books, you may be pleased to know that the BBC broadcasts a series of the same name and along the same lines as the books on the CBBC channel. The Horrible Histories books teach children about history using cartoony pictures and by concentrating on the “horrible” history such

I listened to Comrade Milliband's tedious historical revisionism with interest: apparently New Old Labour are to become the party of enterprise and small business in order that wealth can be created and redistributed. With Comrade Milliband's remarks following so closely...

Yes, it’s Our Dennis: There is a deeper rightwing revisionism at play. Stalin’s crimes are being elevated to a par with the exterminations of Jews by those who want to banalise or relativise the Holocaust and reduce its historical centrality to just another example of wartime mass murders. Stalin’s famines of the

During this era of historical revisionism, when former communist fellow travellers such as Charles Clarke and Peter Mandelson occupy the highest seats in government, it is useful to be reminded - and to remind the young - quite how evil communism was and is. As we celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this week (thanks, let us not forget, to the leadership and bravery of Ronald Reagan...

The BNP's appearance on Question Time has prompted a wave of revisionism on the political right - with some going as far as saying that the right is better at dealing with the BNP and apparently the left is to blame for the rise of the BNP. And then there are some who say we should not heap abuse on Nick Griffin and instead need to deal with the concerns of BNP sympathisers. Let's addres...

This Pat Buchanan column (flagged by Dave in comments below) reminds me of something I read recently in Liberation, William Hitchock’s account of the end of World War two in Europe and the period that immediately followed. He quotes several...

New for 2009: Chiang Kai-shek revisionism. Granite Studio lays out, without endorsing, the case: For example, today’s CCP, like the KMT of the 1930s, emphasizes modernization, a strong military, and urban development often at the expense of rural areas. Like...

Earlier today, Ben Brogan reported a telling comment from the Cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, that, when it comes to discussing the G20 summit with Washington, "There is nobody there ... You cannot believe how difficult it is."  The remarks have since been withdrawn, and expunged from civil service websites.  But, in spite of the revisionism, the sentiment has c...

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