It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. — Simon Schama
Tags: #Past, #Reality, #Curiosity, #SimonSchama, #British, #Historian
Mini who’s who:
Simon Schama : British Historian
Born: February 13, 1945
