"Toppling Monuments Will Not Help Us Properly Understand Our Past or Resolve Our Present Troubles"

"Of course, we need critical and enquiring study of the British empire in our schools. But the aim should be to understand it–why it came into being, how it sustained itself for so long, and how it come to an end (and yes, what role slavery played, and why it was abolished)–not to praise empire on the one hand or damn it on the other."

Richard J. Evans at The New Statesmen discusses the "history wars."