![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The time of the grand histories is coming to an end,’ Rideal declared. Especially now that online newspapers are obsessed with lacing their bylines with as much clickbait as possible. Rideal was interviewed in The Guardian, and The Guardian pulled out some exciting-sounding quotes, because, well, it’s a newspaper, and that’s what they do. We should be glad – after all, back in January, we were told that ‘Popular history writing remains a male preserve.’ Good ol’ Rebecca, doing her bit to redress the gender imbalance! You know the type – the sort of person who is interested in history, wants to know about the world they live in and what shaped it, but doesn’t want, isn’t interested in, perhaps hasn’t had the sort of education where they can handle, a dry academic monograph. One day, Rebecca Rideal wrote a history book, intended for the general, non-academic reader. ![]()
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