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This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the national past are evident both in the government-sanctioned version of British history and the critiques of it by academic historians. These historians demonstrate that the official version of the British past glosses over past wrongs, but do not sufficiently challenge the notion that histories of a nation need be geopolitically focused or morally instructive.
History
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- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- International Relations, Politics and History
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Public History WeeklyVolume
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De Gruyter OldenbourgVersion
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This paper was published in the journal Public History Weekly and is available at https://doi.org/10.1515/phw-2022-19459Acceptance date
2022-03-14Publication date
2022-03-24Copyright date
2021ISSN
2197-6376Publisher version
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