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I'm not a historian but i can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
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I'm Not A Historian But I Can

Penelope Lively
I'm not a historian but i can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
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