Episodes Referencing This Book
March 15, 2021
Context:
Discussed at some length as a serious academic analysis of counterfactual history by the former Regius Professor at Cambridge. Evans analyzed Dominic Sandbrook's own counterfactual essays for the New Statesman, noting they became parallel histories rather than true what-ifs. The book also categorizes counterfactuals as wish fulfillment, dystopian fantasies, or fictional self-indulgence, and critiques conservative historians' counterfactual essays about Britain and Europe as politically motivated responses to the loss of empire and the growth of the EU.