Are we learning the wrong lessons from history?
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
'Peace for our time': British prime minister Neville Chamberlain displaying the Anglo-German declaration, known as the Munich Agreement, in September 1938.Wikimedia, CC BY-SACan historians influence government policy? Should they? And, if so, what kinds of historical knowledge should they produce?
I suspect policy-makers only rarely think of...
