A review by meenaz
Bad History: How We Got the Past Wrong by Emma Marriott

3.0

The book makes for an interesting read. If one is not aware that history is often a matter of who gets to narrate the tale, this book might introduce them solidly to the idea. For people who are familiar with this idea, the book may not do much. The book elucidates several instances of how popularly believed historical understandings are more myth than fact, but in several cases, it does not go much into why, despite being far from the truth, the historical myth continues to be more durable. So, in my view, it certainly fails in explaining 'how' we got the past wrong. All it manages to say is that we get history wrong more often than what we may want to believe.