Re: Uses of history

On 02/11/2011 22:11, Erilar wrote:
Peter Jason<pj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...

There are facts in history. Births& deaths of monarchs. Climatic
events, parliamentary rolls, patents, diaries. Plenty of facts.
Even these could be consigned a truth probability based on
corroborating evidence.

And Mortimer's book tears huge holes in one of those "facts" about the
death of a monarch 8-)

Except that Mortimer's book is hardly unbiassed (he is upholding the honour of the Mortimer family) - and his own, substituted, "facts" are laughable.
--
John Briggs
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