James Aitcheson

Historical fiction and alternative truths

by James Aitcheson on October 14, 2015

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On Monday 12 October, BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week featured an impassioned debate between novelist Jane Smiley and historians Niall Ferguson and Gabriel Gorodetsky on the value of historical fiction, and to what extent

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