One of my uni friends...
...once had lunch at the Ivy with Starkey, and ran into Simon Schama, or it may have been the other way around.
Apparently the tension was excruciating, and for a moment he thought they were going to have a history off. It's like a dance-off, but with footnotes and sources.
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prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 15:51,
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haha!
i'm imagining the piano player stopping and everyone turning round to watch
(, Tue 16 Aug 2011, 16:07, Reply)