Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s.

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Presentism evaluates historical actors solely through modern standards and it risks imposing contemporary concepts onto eras where those ideas did not exist, obscuring the actual motivations, constraints, and worldviews of the period.

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