To pitch an alternative timeline, you first have to believe a particular narrative of real history. That’s where things can go wrong.
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Whether the ubiquity of fiction has devalued truth or enhanced morality has been in doubt for over 2,000 years.
Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
1066 was a close-run thing and Harold almost cemented his reputation as a military mastermind. An English victory may not have benefited the country, though.
Hitler died 70 years ago. Or did he?
As we begin to commemorate the outbreak of World War I in earnest, just how central the “Great” war is to Britain’s conception of its history is ever more obvious. And this is also very true in terms of…
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Reader in Film and Popular Culture, Edge Hill University
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Independent Researcher in Medieval Archaeology, University of Sheffield
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Professor of English, University of Birmingham
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Reader in Medieval History, University of Sheffield
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Reader in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Professor of History and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies, Fairfield University