A Quote to Ponder

"...history is not the prerogative of the historian...It is, rather, a social form of knowledge; the work in a given instance, of a thousand different hands..." This is from a book I am reading entitled People and their Pasts: Public History Today, Edited by Paul Ashton and Hilda Keen, 2009. The book is full of articles by British authors involved in public history. Good read...