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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 7852605, member: 93416&quot;]Oh Brave New World!</p><p><br /></p><p>I would say the “central problem” here is what Arthur Marwick in 1970 called the industrialisation of history.&nbsp; He sought to reject a situation where historical understandings are manufactured by experts in universities and then sold to consumers, kind of like cars.</p><p><br /></p><p>His point was that historical understanding should not be like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Writing of Britain in 1970 he could still say that “history belongs to everyone, that is its strength, not its weakness”.</p><p><br /></p><p>That all coins should belong to state authorised experts is merely a corollary of this ongoing and now deeply entrenched industrialisation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Such that mentioning the matter today seems like whistling in the dark</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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