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Michael Gove criticises 'Blackadder myths' about WW1
Topic Started: Jan 4 2014, 06:35 PM (276 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10548303/Michael-Gove-criticises-Blackadder-myths-about-First-World-War.html

Michael Gove has condemned left-wing myths about the First World War peddled by programmes such as the TV comedy Blackadder saying they belittle Britain and clear Germany of blame.

The Education Secretary criticises historians and TV programmes that denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a "misbegotten shambles".

As Britain prepares to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the war, Mr Gove claims only undergraduate cynics would say the soldiers were foolish to fight.

Mr Gove wrote in the Daily Mail that he has little time for the view of the Department for Culture and the Foreign Office that the commemorations should not lay fault at Germany’s door.

The Education Secretary says the conflict was a "just war" to combat aggression by a German elite bent on domination.



As much as I'd recommend Blackadder as a comedy, I'm certainly not using it to learn about history :-/ ....

With that said, I'm in no way siding with Michael Gove here (I almost never do). The assessment of WW1 which he provides is a gross oversimplification: while Germany has to take a share of the blame for it, they certainly weren't the only guilty parties. It just seems to have been a mess of imperialism, militarism and nationalism all around.
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It was mutual self-defence gone horribly wrong.
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CJ
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Sir Tony Robinson has hit back:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25612369

Could be interesting. Michael Gove's radical ideas are pretty evenly matched with Baldrick's "cunning plans", after all.
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