The past shapes both the present and future, or as George Forster — the extraordinary 18th-century naturalist, explorer, revolutionary — once said, “everything that happens is determined by what came before and is connected to what follows.”
In a world driven by speed and instant gratification — the next news story, the next scandal, the next celebrity fad — history can seem like a collection of dusty ideas that linger in the past with little relevance to our lives today. But I beg to differ. I became a historian because I want to make sense of why we are who we are today.
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