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Fake news and forgery during the English Revolution

Fake news and forgery during the English Revolution

by Talking Humanities | Feb 26, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law

With the threat posed by ‘fake news’ now a recurring refrain in newspaper columns and on social media DPhil student William White thinks it is a good time for historians to refocus attention on the England of the early 1640s, where parallels with recent events abound...
What’s the point of knowledge in this post-truth era?

What’s the point of knowledge in this post-truth era?

by Talking Humanities | May 29, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Philosophy, Politics & Law

‘All men by nature desire to know,’ wrote Aristotle. But in this post-truth era where fake news abounds, emotions trump facts, and the truth has allegedly ceased to matter, we might wonder, says Dr Michael Hannon, how important is knowledge in daily life. Even...

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