David Starkey has slammed the National Trust (Image: Getty)
He said: "The danger is to pretend that women had a role they didn't or to pretend that the country was half black or something like this.
"What we're doing now is to sort of make the past look like the present to legitimise it.
"That's very dangerous. And it's, generally speaking, bad history, bad scholarship.
"And I think it deprives the past of its excitement.
"The excitement of the past is not that it's the same but that it's different."
The National Trust was criticised by visitors last year for covering up paintings and sculptures of men at a Northumberland home as part of a celebration of the role of women.
And in 2017, it reversed a decision banning volunteers from public facing duties if they refused to wear a gay pride badge at a Norfolk stately home, following an outcry.
Tudor historian Dr Starkey, famous for his Monarchy series on Channel 4, described it as "profoundly patronising" and "woke" to rewrite history as some might like it to have been.
The adjective, which means "alert to injustice in society, especially racism" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017.
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