On the Record
Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of Public Records and Chief Executive of the Public Record Office, makes a personal record of her own abiding interest in history, maps and archives.
If there was a moment when I did not want to be ‘doing’ history I cannot remember it now. It seemed that all my family were interested in history and so was I from a very early age. In my case it was an eclectic interest ranging from archaeology to travel and exploration in the shape of pictures of tea-clippers under sail round Cape Horn and stories of the young David Livingstone reading while he worked in a cotton mill and of Clive of India sitting high up on a gargoyle on a church steeple in his home town of Market Drayton, Shropshire. I never tried this, but it certainly influenced my climbing of lamp posts in our Chelmsford suburban road!
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