"What-if" historians are "reactionary and historically redundant" according to Tristram Hunt:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1187184,00.html
Seems to be partly a response to the Simon Heffer article I linked to a few days ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1187184,00.html
Seems to be partly a response to the Simon Heffer article I linked to a few days ago.