The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History

by Patrick Salmon

Written by one of the few historians employed by the British government, this important book details how successive governments have applied a selective approach to the past in order to tell or re-tell Britain's national history, with implications for the future. Providing a unique overview of the main trends of official history in Britain since the Second World War, the book details how Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) became one of the earliest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914477197
• ISBN13: 9781914477195
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of London Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"