OPINION - Miquita Oliver's London Question: what place in the city means the most to you?
I’ve been thinking about the word “history” and what it really means to think about the past. People often refer to history as something that they “failed in school”. But really, history is, as Alan Bennett put it so beautifully in his 2004 play The History Boys, “just one f***ing thing after another”. Well, quite. It is simply everything that has happened before us — and to us.