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No one 'writes' history, that's why you need historians, they are the ones that can bring a matter into the right context and research why something was 'writte
by nix23 6y ago
No one 'writes' history, that's why you need historians, they are the ones that can bring a matter into the right context and research why something was 'written' like it is, like it was a battle of 10000 Horsemen when in fact historians know that a that time in hole Europe maximal 3000 Battle-horses existed.
- sokoloff 6y agoI’m pretty sure that GP’s use of “write” was meant as doing things not the literal writing them down.
- psychoslave 6y agoWell, history surely have a lot of good tools to cross information by now, meanwhile historians are still human beings happening in some specific socio-cultural frame. If you rely on someone else analysis – which is reasonable – being aware of the person profile is as important as the impact of the work on shaping society representations.