Neil Oliver
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Buzz Magazine | October 2018 | Carl Marsh
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The modern day can look a little bit glum, but sometimes the grand sweep of history reminds us that we’ve been through a lot more and come out the other side, as historian Neil Oliver reminds Carl Marsh.
You have a new book, The Story Of The British Isles In 100 Places, and a corresponding tour. Will it be location specific for each place you perform in? You probably can’t talk about all 100 places each night…
Depending on where I am, if the venue happens to be within reasonable reach of one or more of the places in the book. The book is not a guide book. It’s not a guided tour of Britain. I had been thinking about writing for a while based on the TV career I have had over the last 20 years. I have been all around Britain, all around the coast nine times and I have criss-crossed the interior. It occurred to me that I have seen so many places and a lot of them unfamiliar to most people; it seemed to me that there was a story to be told. With each one of these 100 places, there is a grand narrative of Britain. Part of the fun of it all is that for me, being able to go and ‘physically’ stand in places where history happened, such as battlefields, graveyards, grand buildings, all places where events actually unfolded. So apart from anything else, each of.....
You have a new book, The Story Of The British Isles In 100 Places, and a corresponding tour. Will it be location specific for each place you perform in? You probably can’t talk about all 100 places each night…
Depending on where I am, if the venue happens to be within reasonable reach of one or more of the places in the book. The book is not a guide book. It’s not a guided tour of Britain. I had been thinking about writing for a while based on the TV career I have had over the last 20 years. I have been all around Britain, all around the coast nine times and I have criss-crossed the interior. It occurred to me that I have seen so many places and a lot of them unfamiliar to most people; it seemed to me that there was a story to be told. With each one of these 100 places, there is a grand narrative of Britain. Part of the fun of it all is that for me, being able to go and ‘physically’ stand in places where history happened, such as battlefields, graveyards, grand buildings, all places where events actually unfolded. So apart from anything else, each of.....
