Statues: should they stay or should they go? If they stay there will be trouble, if they go there will be double (which suggests that they should stay as that would reduce the trouble by half).
 
In this episode, History teacher Cassie Cope and I grapple (not literally) with the topical issue of statues depicting questionable historical figures.

Statues: should they stay or should they go? If they stay there will be trouble, if they go there will be double (which suggests that they should stay as that would reduce the trouble by half). In this episode, History teacher Cassie Cope and I grapple (not literally) with the topical issue of statues depicting questionable historical figures.

Statues: should they stay or should they go? If they stay there will be trouble, if they go there will be double (which suggests that they should stay as that would reduce the trouble by half).
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In this episode, History teacher Cassie Cope and I grapple (not literally) with the topical issue of statues depicting questionable historical figures.

Episode 6- Statues: Taken for Granite?

'History repeats... first as tragedy, then as farce'. Karl Marx said that, and what has he ever got wrong?

 

The purpose of this podcast is to look back at the times when History has repeated (or rhymed) and try to learn some tentative lessons: try to draw up some common themes, trails, and threads that can inform our future action. Or, perhaps, just despair at the inevitability of endless human erring.

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'History repeats... first as tragedy, then as farce'. Karl Marx said that, and what has he ever got wrong? The purpose of this podcast is to look back at the times when History has repeated (or rhymed) and try to learn some tentative lessons: try to draw up some common themes, trails, and threads that can inform our future action. Or, perhaps, just despair at the inevitability of endless human erring.

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