BBC's Ten Great Britons
British readers will not have missed the recent popular BBC series Ten Greatest Britons poll. The downside of this series is the trivialising of history. It is postmodern sentiment that puts Diana Princess of Wales and John Lennon among the greatest Brits.
Leslie Price
The plus side, and it is considerable when we reflect on it, is that the majority who never give history a thought have watched a well documented series and will know a lot more after this series than they did before. One admitted that he now knew that Cromwell came after Queen Elizabeth I and not before!
