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Paperback The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History Book

ISBN: 1914477197

ISBN13: 9781914477195

The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History

Written by one of the few historians employed by the British government, this important book details how successive governments have applied a selective approach to the past in order to tell or re-tell Britain's national history, with implications for the future. Providing a unique overview of the main trends of official history in Britain since the Second World War, the book details how Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) became one of the earliest and strongest critics of what he saw as the British government's attempts to control the past through the writing of so-called, 'official histories'.

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