Your Daily Penguin: Macaulay!

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Me writing about Macaulay:

[mattierosss]

Thank you for posting, Steve. Sorry you're still feeling poorly. No worries taking a day off...you know we will be here. 🐥

[OjaswiShxrma]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention “A Minute on Indian Education” which is primarily what many students today, including myself, really know him from.

[MarcNash]

Macaulay and that book in particular gets a bit of a kicking in my new novel out next Spring! Actually all academic History does, but he gets name-checked. I would say Whig History is a teleology that is the glorification of/ or justified by, a concept of progress towards where we are now in the present. That word 'progress' is key and why I think it's hard to maintain that Whiggish history is back in vogue now, but the now is all about regression! You'd only read him for his language now.