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After thirty-seven years as a teacher of history in an independent secondary school in Scotland I retired and started writing history instead of teaching it. I know that I lack the capacity for the painstaking routine and attention to detail needed for research.

But I have always loved talking about the past, and making history interesting and enjoyable and significant for every student, young or old, who cares to listen. That is why my writings are called "Lectures". Some of them have been delivered to an audience; some have not.

But the intention is that they have the brevity, the accessibility and the light touch of a good lecture. My method is to write from memory and then check the facts later.

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This does at least mean that my writings are never merely summaries of the work of others. They are what one reviewer called "fresh thinking on familiar topics". On the whole my memory and my ideas are at their freshest when I am writing about subjects I have studied