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 ...

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

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...

From the BBC press office: BBC One and BBC Two will be available to watch live online from 27 November, Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, announced today. The channels join BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies and BBC News which are already simulcast. They can all be watched online via their...

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".

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