A foreign country

Simon Colbeck considers ‘Remembrance’

by Simon Colbeck 9th November 2018

‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,’ wrote LP Hartley in the The Go-Between, a novel of lost innocence, written after the second world war but set mainly in 1900. The words seem like a sort of prophecy in reverse especially in this week, a century after the Armistice that ended world war one.