![]() ![]() ![]() This has been demonstrated in neuroscientific terms over the last four decades by the identification of the role of ‘place cells’ within the hippocampus of the brain linked to the subjective ‘sense of place’, in part linked to the creation of personal memory, while the significance of Lieux de mémoire in French historiography provides an endorsement of what many of us already feel. Those memories which shape us, as so many studies have shown, are shaped by place, and the places themselves are shaped by memory. ![]() That statement may be a truism, but there are few places better than a Festschrift where one can get away with starting a paper in such a manner. We are shaped by our memories and by others’ memories of us. ![]()
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