History Is Written By The Victors

"Tell me, where now are all those great doctors and masters with whom you were well acquainted while they were alive and immersed in learning? Now others fill their places, and I know not whether they ever think of them. In their lifetime they seemed to be someone, and now they are not spoken of" -

Thomas a Kempis, 'The Imitation of Christ.

Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and sometime self-styled 'fully paid-up member of the neo-imperialist gang', is to have a hand in the history curriculum. We await the results with great interest.