Hot take, but the propagandized version would likely be better, since your goal is to find out the present day conditions rather than actual history. What a government wants its citizens to think (and more importantly, how it expects them to behave) is probably more important than finding out actual details of history that early in your stay.
Exactly, depending on the world/kingdom/government you’d find yourself in, the local history books may be propaganda.
Hot take, but the propagandized version would likely be better, since your goal is to find out the present day conditions rather than actual history. What a government wants its citizens to think (and more importantly, how it expects them to behave) is probably more important than finding out actual details of history that early in your stay.
Even so, you may not have the real truth, but you’ll know what you need to navigate the society you are currently in.
Perhaps even written by Victoria.