Mummy Mummy 145

Mummy why is Daddy planning to teach his sixth formers about the Simpsons, I thought you said that they were a dysfunctional disgrace?

Did I, dear? Doh! That was a little priggish of me. Can't it wait? Mummy's trying to work out how to approach teaching the Indian Mutiny with Year 13. As a narrative, in the manner of Christopher Hibbert, combining a sense of the sweep of events and of the personal stories of the individuals involved? In the manner of Ranajit Guha or Eric Stokes, with a focus on structures and structural change? Meta-historically, after Rudrangshu Mukherjee, by interrogating representations rather than exploring events? Through a judicious mix of all of the above?....