Noggin the Nog
An enchanting series revealed the strangeness of the past to generations of children.
History Today at the IHR, our recent series of panel discussions held at the Institute of Historical Research, prompted a deluge of questions. One of them, raised by the historian and broadcaster David Olusoga, was about panellists’ first memories of what we now call ‘public history’, a capacious term that embraces TV, radio, print, the heritage industry and much more.
Olusoga recalled being entranced by a BBC documentary on revolutionary French painters, such as Jacques-Louis David, a neoclassicist of grand visions, who, having been imprisoned after the execution of his ally and patron Robespierre, transferred his allegiance seamlessly to Napoleon.
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