Past and Present

Past and Present

About the Substack

Riffing on the lessons we might learn from history, but probably won't.

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About Gerard DeGroot

Historian, journalist, and crazy dog lover living in St Andrews, Scotland. Once wrote a lot of books, now a book critic for The Times and others. In my other life I make and fix things. People tell me that I'm a great cook. Friends call me Jerry.