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New forms of history have been pioneered.
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Other voices are now heard, especially the voices of the
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losers in these processes, all the people who only had a
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subordinate place in these achievements.
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As a result, we've now got a less one-sided
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and, in many ways, a more mature historiography.
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We've got over the old tendency to strut and swagger about
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Britain's historical role.
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The changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries now
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seem very far from preordained
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and, as I say,
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the less one-sided perspective reveals the losses