Lots of historians are sniffy about re-enactors. I remember meeting someone very grand while I was making the programme who said: "Oh, I see you are going over to the dark side." I have suffered from that thinking, too, that the documents we should be using are from archives and libraries. But you can learn a lot by recreating stuff.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Lots of historians are sniffy about re-enactors. I remember meeting someone very grand while I was making the programme who said: "Oh, I see you are going over to the dark side." I have suffered from that thinking, too, that the documents we should be using are from archives and libraries. But you can learn a lot by recreating stuff." in the context of "Lucy Worsley: 'Lots of historians are sniffy about re-enactors' (26 Mar 2011)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.