Robert Darnton
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- Alternative name
- Prof Robert Darnton
- Born
- TriviaSon of New York Times correspondent Byron "Barney" Darnton who was killed while reporting in World War II.
- Quotes[on conducting documentary research] Wherever they are, when first approached, archives are intimidating. Even if the setting does not unnerve you, you feel daunted at the enormity of the task: how to convert endless scribbles on paper into something that could pass for history...The first box arrives. You undo a faded ribbon on one side, fold back the cover and pull out the top dossier. You start reading, one document after another, one folder after another, one box after another. The sequence could go on forever. How to make sense of it all?
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