1215 and All That
’'M afraid that Keith Sinclair’s two talks from 2YC on The Middle Ages are aimed at subverting-by a process somewhat the opposite of muckraking and yet not quite the same as white-washing-~-all those good safe accepted
notions of history imbibed from 1066 And All That. Mr Sinclair's method seems to be to sow little tares of doubt in areas of the mind which we once thought safely sown once and for all with the buffalo grass of schoolday history. He suggests, for example that King John
might be interpreted as anti-privilege rather than anti-liberty and thus, by modern standards, a Good Thing; that the mediaeval schoolman who strove to know all about eternity has more to his intellectual credit than the modern scientist who actually does know all about electricity; that spiritual values pursued by the few may be as beneficial to the community as material standards pursued by the many. It is not Mr. Sinclair’s deliberate policy, I gather, to make us feel that all these centuries we’ve been getting nowhere fast, but his are terribly ventilated radio:talks that leave you with mind wide. open and definitely feeling the draught.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 11
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1951215 and All That New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 11
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