But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking...
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Tom Irwin: But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust
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No But this is history Distance yourselves
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Our perspective on the past alters
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And looking back immediately in front of us is dead ground we don't see it
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And because we don't see it this means there is no period so remote as the recent past
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And one of the historian's jobs
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is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be
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Even on the Holocaust bell rings
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An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
