History is being rewritten all the time, that is literally the point of our work.

Spot on, history isn't fixed, it's a constantly developing story where different voices are heard and perspectives seen, a multifaceted reference from which we can learn from our past to inform our future.

The job of the historian is to rewrite history. History is never static, it is continually being written and rewritten. The labour of the historian is in the constant re-examination of their previous work. A REVISIONIST HAS ENTERED CHAT History is immutable!

OOOOOH! Welcome to Bluesky! 😃🙋🏼‍♂️

I can't remember who said it, but there was a great line about this in a Yale lecture on YT. The professor explains that a journo called wanting to know who the first 'revisionist' historian was. He says 'well I guess Herodatus' at which point the journo says 'great, can I get his number?'

Yep. I got in a world of trouble at university for defending French generalship in 1940. Now 40+ years later I sense my time has come at last...

YES! Thank you - it so often seems like we've forgotten this fundamental fact of what history is and what historians do.