Michael Wood is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. He has presented numerous BBC series, and is the author of several books including The Story of China (Simon & Schuster, 2021). His Twitter handle is @mayavision
“In sun-beaten Greece, I learned that the past is receding faster than ever“
ITS OBVIOUS, I KNOW, BUT CHANGE IN HISTORY moves at a different pace at different times and in different places. Whenever I visit the Greek islands – with novelist Lawrence
