Rosemary Hill
speaker
490 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Rosemary Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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consecrated spaces, maybe some bad things will happen to you.
There's a great beginning of a great ambivalence about the past and therefore an ability to think about it critically.
Everyone, all historians, including us, you have your agenda.
But the ability to think critically about the past, of course, depends on
documentary evidence.
If it's just Geoffrey of Monmouth telling you about the Knights of the Round Table, I mean, you can't just buy it or you don't.
But one of the people who is involved in this great antiquarian enterprise, who is the first to make a survey of London in this way, of course, is John Stowe, who was born in London, born in the city at Cornhill in 1525.
Very kind of London career, joined the merchant tailors
started work on his survey of London in the 1560s and already he's complaining that things are not like they were when he was growing up and you don't know where to find the shops anymore.
When I was a lad, all this was fields.
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