Good old BBC, you can always rely on them for a bit of revisionism.  According to one of the BBC’s tame gardeners, the 1600s was the best time to be British. At first I was a little confused on account of there not being a British nation until 1707, then I thought perhaps she was being

I see that Irish President Mary McAleese has been indluging her hobby of historical revisionism again, this time claiming that tens of thousands of Irishmen joined the British Army in an attempt to avoid poverty rather than out of a sense of partiotism. I'm with Lord Maginnis on this when he wrily observes.... "The whole idea that men joined the Army to keep their families off the bread line ...

A disgraceful piece of anti-Semitic historical revisionism appears in today’s Independent newspaper, which tries to rehabilitate the Slovenian Nazis, or Domobrantsvo/ (Slowenische Landeswehr) as misunderstood patriots, betrayed by the British. The Domobrantsvo are shown here in the picture swearing an oath of allegiance on Hitler’s birthday in 1945. Jugoslavia had emerged as a multi-et...

In a darned odd piece in The Spectator, the cartoonist Martin Rowson declares his love for Christine Hamilton. I certainly won't criticise him for this, and will tread softly sooner than tread on his dreams. But this is something else:...

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...

Blogpower were always going to reply and they have done so, writing of "JMB and Ian Grey so undeservedly tarnished by some of your comments" and accusing my "version" of events "revisionism". That is a euphemistic way of saying I was lying. This puts it on a whole new plane. If you care to read the posts properly, it will be seen that the admins have been "very deservedly called out over this". Th...

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...

A new book about the founder of the dynasty challenges the widely-held assumption that he made his fortune as a bootlegger. The real money, it says, came from wheeling and dealing in Hollywood. There's no attempt at revisionism, however, when it comes to assessing the character of the "near-complete bastard".

Holocaust denying and revisionism of the Holocaust is illegal in Germany and Austria. It carries quite a tough penalty and as can be seen from this article here, people can be extradited to face the charges. Gerald Toben, the man under arrest, has been banged up before for expounding his views on the holocaust, which he

You might enjoy: Rod Lurie in The Huffington Post: The Holocaust revisionism of Hollywood Iain Dale's Diary: Does Eddie George have smoking gun? Daniel Gross in Slate: This Isn't Your Grandfather's Recession Clay Risen in The Plank: Does Berlin know...