Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
'All predictions about the future have to be based on the past, so historians are best qualified to make them'. "That was a really depressing lecture, professor," said one of my students as we...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
I am not yet up there with Salman Rushdie or Tintin. Disappointingly, from my publishers' point of view, no one has yet pronounced a death sentence against me. Regrettably, the Commission for Racial...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
As I now spend most of my time in the US, and see Britain only intermittently, I can monitor changes in British society with judgment unstaled by custom. It is like being a chronic Rip van Winkle,...
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Felipe Fernàndez-Armesto
"See America." When I got a job in Massachusetts I thought I would be able to take the ad's advice. But it was a year before I got very far out of Boston. At last, when I began a 30-day, 20-lecture...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
I have staked a lot on centenaries but I fail to understand their charm. In 1988, I published a book about the Spanish Armada. I had a biography of Columbus ready for 1992. I took part in...