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Op-Ed Columnist Michael Talbot takes on the subject of why people selectively remember the past; choosing to forget or gloss over the awful bits in a country’s history.

Op-Ed Columnist Michael Talbot delves into the Titanic third-class passenger list to uncover the histories of these oft-forgotten peoples who hailed from over thirty different nations.

Op-Ed Columnist Michael Talbot investigates the history of tourism in Britain in the wake of the British Government’s “Staycation” campaign for 2012, which urges Britons to spend their holiday money on the archipelago.

Op-Ed Columnist Michael Talbot rails against historically-sloppy television documentaries. Providing numerous examples, he offers a formula for doing historical documentaries right while keeping them interesting.

In his first column, Michael Talbot argues that Britain’s place in global history is largely dictated by conceptions of empire and modernity, resulting in skewed perceptions of historical and contemporary Britain.