‘But what is it?’ asked Agnes. ‘I know it’s your family home, but what is the history of this…She-war Nigandoo?’ During his time at university, Ronald had learned that ‘history’ was the word the English used for the record of every time a white man encountered something he had never seen and promptly claimed it as his own, often renaming it for good measure. History, in short, was the annals of the bully on the playground.
