The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history...

"The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is to teach why history matters. How to ignite the first spark, which lights up one source of history and then another, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life."

Stephen Fry, Making History