Originally Posted by
Jimmy Floyd
That is at least anchored to something real and interesting. The real gold is found in literature about the subject itself, such as this from Social Memory (1988) by James Fentress and Chris Wickham:
It is on this level (contesting the manipulation of 'national memory' by 'elites') that the role of schoolteaching and the media is most important. So, indeed, is that of professional historians, whose function, whether conscious or unconscious, is, more often than they realise, less to analyse the 'pastness' of the past than to give an objective veneer to the preoccupation and self-legitimizations of national bourgeoisies.
I read that about three months into the programme, and I think it's a good job I'm naturally inclined to lol at shite.