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"In the beginning I was corresponding with David Pocock, and then I was corresponding with Dorothy and then probably after the first visit when I actually met Dorothy and Joy and Judy all face to face, then I was writing to all of them collectively but still writing it as a letter to somebody that I knew, writing it to a face rather than to a nameless void - the archive." (Interview with Anna Green 11.02.00) |
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"Do you know I have never thought about the researchers that read the replies much at all. I always think - well they must get something from it and I would actually like to meet some and find out what they are like, what they do with it, what interest is it to them? My thoughts on a particular thing? My thoughts are different from everybody elses on their particular subject. I have always been curious, but no more than curiosity." (Interview with Anna Green 11.02.00) |
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"I'll get it down in black and white so that its there on the records so one day somebody can say "Oh yeah, look he said that and he was right" - or wrong! and I think that all that I'm doing is recording my view on history as its happened to me. I did think in the very beginning that it was rather daunting to write for history, and then I suddenly realised that today is now and yesterday is history. We never think that what we are doing is making history, you'll often here commentators say this is a history making situation but I often wonder if the people involved in it are thinking it is a history making situation, or is it just another job of work that they should be getting on with and doing properly?" (Interview with Anna Green 11.02.00) |
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