# Roy Casagranda - Honest Eulogies Lead to Better Futures

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Podcast: [The Collators](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-collators-7459521)
Published: 2026-07-02T14:42:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thecollators.com/s2e17
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## Resource

Historian and educator Dr Roy Casagranda joins The Collators to explore how the past is reconstructed from incomplete evidence and how easily interpretation can harden into accepted fact. Roy discusses why historians must be honest about their assumptions, why entire people and perspectives disappear from the historical record, and what happens when disciplines studying human behaviour attempt to imitate the physical sciences. The conversation examines the limits of objectivity, the uneasy relationship between evidence and narrative, and why being willing to revise our beliefs is a strength rather than a weakness.

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