we ought to keep in mind that it may be because publishers didn't want to publish it, not because no one was writing it.
That's such a good point. Stories from the past, and about the past, play such a huge role in shaping people's perception of history, and so many stories had to be approved by gatekeepers to find an audience.
Lately I've been pondering a comment I saw about how people's misconceptions about history and race is because Hollywood cast white actresses as Cleopatra and didn't include communities of colour that historically lived in London and so on. I don't think Hollywood is responsible for the misconceptions I had, because I didn't really discover historical films and BBC drama until I was 17 (It's just ocurred to me why I have such fondness for certain films; they were the first of their genre that I encountered). But my view of history was definitely shaped by the fiction I read.
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That's such a good point. Stories from the past, and about the past, play such a huge role in shaping people's perception of history, and so many stories had to be approved by gatekeepers to find an audience.
Lately I've been pondering a comment I saw about how people's misconceptions about history and race is because Hollywood cast white actresses as Cleopatra and didn't include communities of colour that historically lived in London and so on. I don't think Hollywood is responsible for the misconceptions I had, because I didn't really discover historical films and BBC drama until I was 17 (It's just ocurred to me why I have such fondness for certain films; they were the first of their genre that I encountered). But my view of history was definitely shaped by the fiction I read.