Do You Understand Where I’m Coming from?

Making sense of the way I do history necessarily involves shifting my gaze two thousand miles away from Britain to the small Mediterranean island where my grandparents were born.

With my father George at my maternal grandparents’ house on my first birthday, 1986 (personal photo).

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This post is part of the ‘Research and Reflections’ occasional series, consisting of pieces based on my ongoing academic research, as well as on my musings on and responses to current affairs and personal developments.

Content warnings: Ethnic cleansing; Mental illness; Suicide; Bereavement; Racism; Cancer.