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“Being a historian is hard. There's the learning of foreign and/or dead languages; the remembering of archaic legal terms; the decoding of scrawled handwriting; the contextualising of long-forgotten slang and jokes; the traipsing off to faraway archives; the frustration of lacking key sources, or of having way too any; and the constant nagging doubt that there's both too much to know and so much we'll never know.” — Greg Jenner
Being a historian is hard. There's the learning of foreign and/or dead languages; the remembering of archaic legal terms; the decoding of scrawled handwriting; the contextualising of long-forgotten slang and jokes; the traipsing off to faraway archives; the frustration of lacking key sources, or of having way too any; and the constant nagging doubt that there's both too much to know and so much we'll never know.