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Who\u2019s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, Camden Council for a start, who\u2019ve put a QR code on her statue in Bloomsbury explaining that some of views and actions of the prototype feminist, widely regarded as one of the leading modernist writers of the 20th century, are now considered \u201coffensive\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d.\nFunny how we look back for drama and moral clarity, not just judging the past by the prejudices of the present, but affecting to see in its messiness either inevitable progress, or relentless decline. More and more, it seems, history is a weapon with which to fight today\u2019s battles.\nWhat should history teach us?

Witnesses:\nProfessor Ada Palmer\nProfessor Kehinde Andrews\nDr Amanda Foreman\nProfessor Robert Tombs

Panellists:\nAnne McElvoy\nAsh Sarkar\nTim Stanley\nMatthew Taylor

Presenter: Michael Buerk

Producers: Catherine Murray & Peter Everett\nAssistant Producer: Ruth Purser\nEditor: Tim Pemberton