Governments can control the narrative of an official history
Crown retains the copyright to British official histories
Source: irishtimes.com
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Crown retains the copyright to British official histories
Historians to be granted full access to state archives, but critics question relationship to controversial Legacy Act
Plans for the independent Public History project relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland have been met with some criticism.
The historians will have access to government files for an examination of the UK government’s policy towards the region.
A group of independent historians are to write a “public history” of Northern Ireland’s troubled past. Prominent academics Lord Bew and Dr Cao...