We need some explanations and background here. Some context. Context! Described in the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language as: noun; the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement or idea, and in terms of which it can be clearly understood.
noun; the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement or idea, and in terms of which it can be clearly understoodNow, I never much liked history at school. Why learn about things which happened hundreds of years ago? Apart from the battles and bloody bits, that is and there are plenty of battles and bloody bits to come, but in order to understand this account, the context of this story, there has to be a history lesson.
Besides, as Alan Bennett would have it, ‘history is just one f*****g thing after another’. S
