I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

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