![]() One example of this, which readers of my book will be able to see for themselves if they’re interested, is in chapter eight, which describes the row which is depicted in episode eight of the first season between Philip and Elizabeth when they’re on tour in Australia. Hilary Mantel has described history as “the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past,” and there’s great wisdom in that. People’s feelings, people’s intimacies, they all go through the sieve, and all that’s left is a few scraps and lumps, which are then turned into this sacred thing “history.” The historian holds out a sieve and most of the past, the real past, goes through it. History, on the other hand, is a later construct. And only a small fraction of that has actually got recorded as “history.” It was human life, it was people talking to each other, loving each other, hating each other, fighting each other by the millions and billions of people. ![]()
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