Roots and Rituals

Ronald Hutton describes the origins of his historical quest for self-discovery.

When I discovered the family photograph album, I must have been about five or six years old – in that intermediate period when individual memories are sharp and lasting, yet before a child has acquired any real sense of the sequence of events, so that one year melts into another.

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