I do enjoy our field trips! This visit to the Archives in Glasgow’s Mitchell Library (the largest public library in Europe) was both informative and exciting. What a privilege to have such an incredible resource right on our doorstep. We were shown a number of old documents including the oldest one in the Archive; a hand-written document for the sale of land from 1100s. History is a goldmine of ideas, characters, stories and places just waiting to be turned into films. I enjoyed National Treasure for this reason. It managed to capture in some small way the excitement of history. I can see myself sometime in the future, maybe sooner than I think, visiting the Archives and poring over old documents as characters and narratives leap out at me.
"History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances." Donald Creighton
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