When you start writing and you realise, I've heard this somewhere before... History has always fascinated us. We build entire television channels around it. We study it in schools. We return constantly to stories of past conflicts, political choices and social conventions; from the drawing rooms of Bridgerton to the smoke-filled back streets of Peaky Blinders. But I do not think history fascinates us simply because of the events themselves. History is more than kings, battles
