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History is bunk - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... However, history is bunk is probably one of the two things that most of us can recall that he ever said. The other being "People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black".
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www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/182100.html
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Henry Ford said 'History is bunk' in all kinds of ways; here's one he said in the Chicago Tribune that's a little different than the usual. ... History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history that we...
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archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/qt/quote33.htm
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This and many other examples strongly tempt me to agree with Henry Ford’s assessment of history as bunk. To be sure, "history is bunk" is an inappropriate and oversimplified generalization per se, but Ford did not put it quite so bluntly.
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www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/boukhonine9.html
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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today. Henry Ford, Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916;
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www.quotationspage.com/quote/24950.html
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A brilliant critique of the Museum of Bristol project and its embarrassing heritage-lite approach to the city’s history has appeared on the Festival of Ideas website.
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thebristolblogger.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/history-as-b...
thebristolblogger.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/history-as-bunk/
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Leo McKinstry says the current craze for genealogy reflects an unhealthy combination of snobbery and inverse snobbery, and is a poor replacement for national history...
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www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/643156/sorry-...
www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/643156/sorry-but-family-history-really-is-bunk.thtml
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Henry Ford said it first and best, “History is more or less bunk”. Is financial history any different? I ask myself that question a lot lately, almost every time I read something where the analysis compares the current “recession” to the average of something in a prior recessionary period.
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paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/01/04/is_financial_hi.h...
paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/01/04/is_financial_hi.html
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So I went to the history books. Well, I could find out all about kings and presidents; but I could learn nothing of their everyday lives. So I decided that history is bunk.'
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www.uea.ac.uk/~m242/historypgce/purposes/ford.htm
www.uea.ac.uk/~m242/historypgce/purposes/ford.htm
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The teaching of history, as it unfolds, should be a higher priority in schools ... In a recent report on the teaching of history in schools, Ofsted pointed out that, too often, British children had no clear sense of chronology and no vantage point on historical change. For too long, the idea of a story unfolding in real...
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www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/artic...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5891156.ece
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