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Article: Our Man In The Past; Armed with his acclaimed account of the first world war, historian Hew Strachan is stepping out of academia and into the front line as Channel 4 adapts his work for a new no- nonsense documentary on the conflict. Barry Didcock met him
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- September 7, 2003
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HEW Strachan - it's pronounced Strawn - is the quiet man among
Britain's TV historians. Unassuming and self-deprecating he will
never be a Starkey or a Schama, the chief performers in TV's
historical circus. In fact, if history is the new cooking, as one
television executive recently noted, you sense that Strachan would be
happier just writing the recipes.
I meet him at his massive house in Glasgow's Kelvinside and,
fittingly, he does have an enormous kitchen. It's cluttered with
children's playthings, discarded bits of school uniform and comes
complete with a black labrador called Bacchus. He makes coffee and we
move to an equally enormous room upstairs. It has curved windows and
those ...