Compare and Contrast

BBC Four had a couple of history programmes on tonight. First up was Terry Jones on the Celtic civilisation that existed in Europe around the time of Caesar. Then we had Dan Snow on How the Celts Saved Britain. Frankly, give me the lugubrious and slightly cynical Jones over the puppyish Snow any day. Jones’ programme was thought-provoking. Snow’s programme was almost complete and utter tripe.

 

The most telling thing was that Jones stated the old saw about the fact that history is written by the victors (in his case, Caesar). Snow seemed blissfully unaware of this during his retelling of his version of history.