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Article: The trouble with history and 'Citizen Kane'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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The Week In Radio
Last week, I came across a review of a book on the plague that
devastated Europe and the near East between the sixth and eighth
centuries. The what, you say? Well, quite: for centuries, this
plague was all but forgotten: we know all about the Black Death, but
this plague, which may have been far greater, which decimated
cities, wiped out thousands of villages, killed millions, vanished
from view.
Which shows how fragile knowledge is, and how random our view of
history. Two programmes on Thursday raised the subject. On In Our
Time (BBC Radio 4), Melvyn Bragg was discussing the Library of
Nineveh, a vast collection of writings assembled in the seventh
century BC by the ...
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