Diz Irwin, o jovem e cínico professor de História:
If you want to learn about Stalin, study Henry VIII.
If you want to learn about Mrs. Thatcher, study Henry VIII.
If you want to know about Hollywood, study Henry VIII.
The wrong end of the stick is the right one. A question has a front door and a back door. Go in the back, or better still, the side.
Flee the crowd. Follow Orwell. Be perverse.
And since I mention Orwell, take Stalin. Generally agreed to be a monster, and rightly. So dissent. Find something, anything, to say in his defence.
History nowadays is not a matter of conviction.
It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.
Alan Bennett, The History Boys
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