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We tell the story of England — 6,000 years of history. We look after it and bring it to life.

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It is an icon of continuity; it has seen everything from the Norman Conquest to the Second World War.

I would like English Heritage to be seen as a model institution for the challenge of bringing history to life

It was a very challenging time for that institution,’ she explains. ‘I learnt there how a charity was different from a government agency, which was invaluable for this job.

People will only preserve things if they understand them. We have to explain, therefore, why things matter. One of our purposes in this regard is to conserve things to help people understand their own history.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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