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Louis XIV on TV, or why it’s not helpful to compare the Sun King to Hitler

by Phil McCluskey on August 20, 2013

Mary Beard recently posted on this blog advocating a greater place for the specialist historian in writing and presenting historical documentaries. Nowhere is her point more pronounced than in relation to under-represented periods of history.

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