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Article: Coming Home....(how a parent fostered a love of history)
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- History Today
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- February 1, 2001
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History editor Andrew MacLennan explains why his love for the subject is second nature.
AN ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT with the past is not perhaps a desideratum, let alone a requirement, for a history publisher in these hard-nosed times. However, in our family it wasn't an option: we were marinated in it from the womb, and the amniotic fluid came from our father.
Dad -- a Scottish army medico -- was soldier by profession, military historian by avocation, and antiquarian by habit. His enthusiasms were the early-modern history of Scottish regiments and mercenaries; and arms and armour. He collected both throughout his life, but particularly early on in his native ...