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History vs Herstory
Intelligence Squared
The Importance of Voice in History
I was told when I was doing my postgraduate work that you can never tell the story of the working classes in this country, because they didn't leave diaries and memoirs. But what it isn't impossible to do is create an outline of their lives. And we may not have, like Winston Churchill left, you know, tons and tons and tons of stuff that they do. So there's almost an opportunity for us,. given the scantiness, if I can use that expression, of the type of sources you're talking about in terms of the voice. Is there room for manoeuvre, and did you use it in the five, to actually not write like a novelist, but
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