Re: Johnsonia

Date: 2021-02-28 01:05 pm (UTC)
mildred_of_midgard: (Default)
This reminds me of reading a review of the Tory governments of the recent decades changing the more critical takes in school books back again to that image of glorious Britain never having been invaded and conquered since William the Conqueror...:

Huh. I didn't realize this had ever been abandoned in England; it was what I (in the US) was uniformly taught in both school and my reading. William of Orange was passed off by my teacher as an internal revolution (he was invited!) and John who? :P

having to explain to themselves why their own wars against the French lasted for (a hundred) years, and hitting on the "the Germans are the most efficient soulless killing machines, that's the only reason!" explanation.

Now that's hilarious. I want this to be true!
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