British - Writer | May 26, 1974 -
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
Ben Schott
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If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
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I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
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I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.
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