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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

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

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.