And my perennial favourites: an epistolary encounter with Sheila Rowbotham, who wrote me a really nice letter about anarchist figures we both studied.
Ooh anyone up for sharing their encounters, however grand or anticlimactic, with historians/ academics they admire?
Maybe I'll share mine too...
Constance Bantman
Constance Bantman
Occasionally bumped into Carlo Ginzburg doing photocopying in UCL when I worked there. He would sometimes come and do guest lectures. Once I mumbled something about being inspired by micro-history and he looked at me as if I was mad.
