Helen McCarthy
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Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
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The rush of leaving a jumper in the pub only to get it back the next day.
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RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.
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Ah well, that's okay then www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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my dad retired last year and is now sitting on like five boards and overseeing the building expansion of their church and mentoring like a dozen people
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