E40: The Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead & who gets to write stories/history

A TARDIS of One’s Own

Time for an absolute New Who classic this week as we dive into the two-parter, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead. Donna and the Doctor visit a planet-sized library. Here we meet River Song for the first time, Donna faces an alternate reality, and the Doctor grapples with not knowing everything. Since we're talking about books and stories, we had to ask who actually gets to tell their stories, and what do we lose when only one particular type of voice records our history?

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Reference list

Popular history writing remains a male preserve, publishing study finds - Alison Flood (The Guardian)

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