A Point of View

The Right Side of History


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Sarah Dunant asks if we should judge the past by the standards of the present or future, as shifting social attitudes colour our view of how the past is portrayed.

"What current historians share with those historians of the past whose vision we vehemently decry, is that they too thought they were right at the time...If we now find their views abhorrent and unjust then how about us; what might there be about our present moral certainty that the future might take issue with. What might we be missing?"

Producer: Sheila Cook

Sound: Peter Bosher
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman

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