timbo
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Post by timbo on Jan 27, 2014 20:25:07 GMT
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Post by stefano on Jan 28, 2014 2:13:19 GMT
Strange season that one. We were doing so well and looking like mounting a serious challenge for promotion to the 2nd tier, when along came 8 successive draws ended by a crushing 0-6 reverse at Home Park to hammer home a reality check. The succession of league draws was interspersed with an FA Cup exit at a place famous only for an indoor ski slope and pigs doing a runner from the abattoir!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2014 20:42:28 GMT
Since history began to be critiqued by postmodern philosophers in the last 40-50 years, historians have had to move away from talking about "facts" because what a "fact" is has become a matter for considerable debate. Postmodern critics have pointed out that the Historical Method is based on examining all the evidence and come to an unbiased conclusion, and yet we all know it is totally impractical to analyse all the evidence, and all of us come to a subject with preconceptions so it's impossible to be unbiased. Therefore, being objective as a historian is essentially impossible History has had to reinvent itself. This is why the emphasis has shifted away from "proving" things to theory, ideas, experience etc. And everything has to be of wider relevance. Does this make Bill Luscombe a post-modern historian then? Bill certainly had an idea of Torquay United's history and didn't want the facts ruining his story. His account of the club's participation in the Amateur Cup strikes me as particularly post-modern and maybe somewhat revisionist. A man, I sense, ahead of his time. |
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Jon
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Post by Jon on Jan 28, 2014 23:09:00 GMT
Does this make Bill Luscombe a post-modern historian then? Bill certainly had an idea of Torquay United's history and didn't want the facts ruining his story. His account of the club's participation in the Amateur Cup strikes me as particularly post-modern and maybe somewhat revisionist. A man, I sense, ahead of his time. Indeed he was. We'll have to look forward to the eagerly-anticipated "Against the Tide: a history of Torquay United in the Professional Era 1921-2021" The pre-modernist first draft of this has now been burned. The post-modernist version "We won every match: a history of Torquay United in the Professional Era 1921-2021" is now under preparation. Relieved of the narrow-minded shackles of fact, it will be a far more uplifting read. |
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Post by Jon on Jan 28, 2014 23:10:33 GMT
Ah yes, the "exciting festive fixture". Best not mentioning it again. Ever. a crushing 0-6 reverse at Home Park There's always one, isn't there? |
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