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History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.