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We need more histories like this. History taught in school often seems so abstract and distant. Without the million little stories about the people that do thin
by tocs3 2y ago
We need more histories like this. History taught in school often seems so abstract and distant. Without the million little stories about the people that do things the political histories are little meaningless.
- Mistletoe 2y agoI really feel like this with regard to monarchs. Most of them seem like homicidal inbred mentally ill people. Why are we studying and deifying them? Henry VIII? One of the absolute worst human beings to ever exist. Put him in the bin with Pol Pot. Most of real history was a simple peasant working hard and making quiet decisions while avoiding being trampled by a king.
- krisoft 2y agoKinda hard to understand the whole deal about the Church of England without Henry VIII though. I don't think anyone is deifying him. At least not in modern discourse. But that is not the only reason to study someone.