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Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters

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'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle Ages

From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.


The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations. Today history is often used to justify xenophobia, nationalism and i...