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Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

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As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.

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In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

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When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

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I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

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Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

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It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: April 18th, 1964

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