In February, an academic event at Oxford University presented an ill-informed historical caricature of Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal Famine. Whatever one’s views about the man, the subject of history deserves better treatment. Here, Zareer Masani for The Critic provides an alternative, more nuanced account supported by historical knowledge more than personal opinion: Much […]
A Matter of Historical Specificity (or its absence)
Below, J. Unsworth, a DDU supporter and former student of History and English Literature, explains why she found an event at Cambridge University on Winston Churchill left much to be desired. The level of debate among learned academics shows, once again, that ‘the divisiveness and tribalism that emerges now again in different periods and different […]