Ruth Scurr: preference

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…How has continuing to live in Cambridge shaped how you think, speaking of environment? It’s an enormous privilege to have spent so much time living here and to have brought up my children here. They do — in all seriousness, my younger one now is applying to university, and she’s like, “Oh my God, why did you bring us up in Cambridge? We don’t want to go anywhere else. We love it so much.” How has it helped how I think? I am constantly making new friends in Cambridge. It’s a very vibrant and also, to a certain extent, transient place. People come — they come for a year, they come for three years. I really have benefited from having the contacts through my college as well, interdisciplinary — I’m good friends with scientists, engineers. I feel I’m living alongside their work as well as my work and trying to understand it as best I can. Who first spotted your talent as a historian, before you were a historian?…

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