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

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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

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

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

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

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.