The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.

After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.

[…] our ancestors, who were not very delicate, nor, generally speaking, much overburthened with respect for the feelings of foreigners, had a number of vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities, of many of which the precise import cannot now be ascertained.

HS2 will pass in a deep cutting, right through a busy road junction which has to be relocated.