OPINION: It's television that turns history into soap opera, not historians
06 Dec 2001 | by SIMON MARQUIS, chief executive of Zenith Media
History is the new EastEnders. If this is true, does that make EastEnders history? Discuss. I don't doubt that students will soon be set exam questions such as this one, but will it be a history question or a media studies question? It could be both. A particularly silly war of words...



