Dan Jones on the secrets of popular history
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4.3 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:42.3 | Picture the scene. I'm 18 years old. Half my life have got my way now. |
| 0:45.3 | And I went up to Cambridge and went to see my director's studies, John Parry, who said, |
| 0:50.3 | Right, you've chosen Medieval, which was a box-side ticked at the beginning of the preceding |
| 0:54.8 | summer holidays and hadn't given it too much an extra thought. Off you go to Sydney Sussex College |
| 0:59.7 | and meet the supervisors called Helen Castor and so I did. And I mean, she was brilliant. You know, |
| 1:06.9 | you couldn't imagine how transformative Helen's teaching was. |
| 1:13.1 | That was Dan Jones describing his history education. |
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