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What you’ve been saying on Twitter and Facebook @ HistoryExtra: Do you think Britain should pay reparations to India? Andrew Ellis We do pay, through the International Development Fund and other charity and aid. Should we demand payment for creating a unified Indian state and its railway? We gave them a governmental structure and a legal system Roger Stevenson Where does it stop? Will Normandy pay reparations to Yorkshire for the Scouring of the North? Dan Brown It’s true Britain drained India’s wealth, but it also gave them modern education, law, a parliamentary system and science and technology. Let’s be friends instead of counting and tallying this old stuff Sarah Rawlins As I come to understand it, this isn’t about money but reparations. I think it’s slight arrogance on the English part to think that anything we did to India was anything short of inhuman Farooq Ahmad Yes, Britain should, because the land and manpower of India was used to prosper the British Empire @ HistoryExtra: Do you think that history can survive the digital age? Nathan McGrath People are more interested in history than ever. The digital age has made the skills and understanding more relevant rather than less, some academics just need to catch up Konrad von Taiser In the digital age fact- finding is easy, but we are suffering from an information overload. Therefore the most important task of 21st- century historians is teaching their students how to sort through an over- abundance of information responsibly and come away with something like the truth Jemma Bezant This is such a non- issue! In the UK at least, history and archaeology for example are driving forward innovative uses of technology in terms of engagement and dissemination