This week, we were also pleased to learn that historians perform well in a new @yougov.co.uk poll on the trustworthiness of experts bit.ly/49I9NV7
77% trust historians' expertise, placing them third in a listing of professions. This is a 6% increase on a similar poll in 2017 #Skystorians
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Ten years on from the Brexit vote: a new @yougov.co.uk poll finds that 77% of the British public have trust in the expertise of historians bit.ly/49I9NV7
It's heartening to hear that so many value, and certainly haven't had enough of, the historian as expert. #Skystorians 1/4
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Right about now (BDST) W/C L.E. Healy, the AAEAF armaments officer, received a call from the Air Ministry reminding him that the 1000 lb bomb had not been cleared for use on the Hawker Typhoon. Healy replied with one of the finest memos of WW2.
RCAF Typhoons had dropped 48 of them that morning.
The Aviation Show
The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?
