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I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Leave history to historians.

I did a history degree once.

I'm part of history.

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.