[eliza robinson]

recently i've been trying to do more history research and stuff, and i've been trying to read loads of history books, but occasionly i look on the internet, and i noticed just how much stuff is incorrect. on one of these incorrect websites there were about 50 people saying about how it helped them on their university paper, what is going to happen to history if people believe anything they read?

[Belgian]

Hm, tricky one to reply...

Because you quickly descend into the "when does history start" discussions.

For yesterday's history, you have a multitude media (newspaper, internet, TV,...) to provide (hopefully) a multitude of sources.

For older history, resources are much more reduced and more often less accessible. And sad but true, most people only go for the first site in Google. And more than often this first site is Wikipedia...

But then again, who says that the website with the "wrong" info is wrong after all

Kris

[eliza robinson]

the website was most likely wrong, it said louis the sixteenth of france had an operation on his.... louis the sixteenth kept a hunting diary, and if he did have an opperation in that particular place he wouldnt have been able to ride a horse, but there was nothing mentioned in his diary about that, and nobody at his pallace at the time mentioned anything about it, but a website about his wife did say he had this opperation, as well as getting lots of other things wrong, and using somebodys daughters name rather than their mothers name, and loads of things like that.
also, you said about when does history start, isnt it when does histry end? cos history technically starts over four billion years ago, so the question would be when does history end, like does it end one second ago, or is history anything out of living memory, that was just an to show what i meant, i dont really want to discuss when history ends.