"Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution. It is subject to the dialectics of remembering and forgetting, unaware of its successive deformations, open to all kinds of use and manipulation. Sometimes it remains latent for long periods, then suddenly revives. History is the always incomplete and problematic reconstruction of what is no longer there. Memory always belongs to our time and forms a lived bond with the eternal presesnt; history is a representation of the past."
Piere Nora, 1984
Quote taken from E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 1875-1914, p1.
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