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Friends and I appreciate the support. Good day to you, my friend. Hello, welcome to another

Rahalasthababab book club this week. I have been reading Scepterdial by Helen Carr, who joins us now.

Hello, Helen. Hello, nice to be here. Thanks for having me. Lovely to have you. I'm very excited to meet you anyway. I love the book. But also, I was very excited when I was researching you to find out that you are, you're the granddaughter, a great granddaughter of E.H. Carr, the historian? Great granddaughter. Wow.

I'd have to do they're older to be his granddaughter.

Yes, I am.

Yeah.

I quoted him in my A-level.

Yeah, I think he plagued most young undergraduate history students

with his critical analysis and objective versus subjective

versus subjective visions of history.

Yes.

So, yeah, well, so there you know, that's a, as a, you don't get many history groupies,

but there you go, suddenly go, ooh, EHK, I know who that is.

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