A half history or a sanitised history serves no one – it’s a corruption. History shouldn’t be comfortable and it shouldn’t be safe. It should always challenge you and should always be challenged.

Fern Riddell, a historian, author, and broadcaster. (via historical-nonfiction)

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“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

— Salman Rushdie (b. 19 June 1947)