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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

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Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

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Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.

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Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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