History and Tonypandy, is there a Truth?

How do we think of history? Well when I think of history, I think of past events that have shaped the world that we live in today.  The one thing that I never thought of was whether the information was correct. Also in history, such as in textbooks, the names and dates can be correct, but the events can be told in a way that makes it bias. Grant was not going to take the information from some of the sources without knowing who wrote them and what their background was in knowing Richard III.  This does not make the sources correct just because those who wrote the history were alive during the time of Richard III.

Grant looks at all different types of history, a lot of the time a new source arises when he asks himself a new question and wants to know more about an event or a person.  I wonder why most of the time he does not consider the material that he has gone through before to see if it can be found.  As you know Grant did look through a lot of sources and I understand that he had to sort out the ones who were fake and the ones that had “truth”, but when he was asking more questions why didn’t he go back to some of the original sources? Grant wanted to prove that he could read faces; maybe that’s why he had to use so many sources so that he could get the answer he wanted.

This brings us to Tonypandy, which can be seen throughout the book. How can we define Tonypandy? After reading the book I have come up with the conclusion that Tonypandy is history that has been stretched so that readers can stay intrigued. Think about it have you ever embellished a story so that other people will stay interested?   When Grant started reading Thomas More’s History of Richard III he wanted to know more information until he found out that Thomas More was Henry VIII’s chancellor and was only eight when Richard III died.  

Grant and Carradine wanted to find an answer to the question of whether Richard III killed his nephews or not, they believe that they got around the Tonypandy and got the “truth”.  Maybe it is just what they wanted to hear, either way it remains a mystery to me.