I seem to remember reading an interview with Alan Bennett where he mentions historians like Niall Ferguson as his inspirations for the character of Irwin in The History Boys.
And now Ferguson has entered the History Wars by opening a new front suggesting that Britain should have stayed out of the war in 1914:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/30/britain-first-world-war-biggest-error-niall-ferguson
It will be interesting to see what Commander-inChief Gove makes of this.
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