Thu. 08/25 - The Fantasy of History
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Want to give a special someone a gift they'll truly love this Valentine's Day? |
| 0:04.8 | Treat them to something that never goes out of style. |
| 0:07.7 | A beautiful bouquet of 12 red roses. |
| 0:11.1 | They're classic for a reason. |
| 0:12.9 | And all for just ÂŁ15 at Waitrose. |
| 0:16.3 | Selected lines and stores. |
| 0:17.6 | Subject to availability ends 14th of February. |
| 0:28.5 | Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february it's thursday august 25th 2022 i'm jackson bird today invented traditions reimagined visions of the past history is is never free from our present-day biases, |
| 0:40.3 | but the way we talk about the past often says more about us than the past itself. |
| 0:45.3 | From the Disneyification of the Middle Ages to the aristocratic invention of Santa Claus in 1800s, New York City. |
| 0:53.5 | Let's talk about how pervading myths reveal the |
| 0:56.6 | values of those who created them and continue to affect us today. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. |
| 1:07.2 | Historian John Boswell once wrote, |
| 1:10.0 | It's not possible to write history in a vacuum. |
| 1:12.6 | No matter how much historians and their readers may wish to avoid |
| 1:16.6 | contaminating their understanding of the past with the values of the present, |
| 1:19.6 | they cannot ignore the fact that both writer and reader |
| 1:22.6 | are inevitably affected by the assumptions and beliefs of the age |
| 1:26.6 | in which they write and read." |
| 1:29.3 | This is a well-accepted fact that historians must grapple with, and most of them do make a valiant effort |
| 1:35.8 | to both remember that in their scholarship and communicate it with any non-historian audiences. |
| 1:41.7 | But that doesn't prevent that bias from slipping in, especially the further |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.