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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrativ...more

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History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find...more

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Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter gave no Answer I jested with him further to bre...more

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For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to...more

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There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds...more