Interviewees in history documentaries tend to be historians and curators; people with specialist knowledge, capable of explaining the facts in a detached manner. But what of people who are not experts, but for whom this history – that of how the nations of the United Kingdom formed the current union – is living and central to their sense of identity?
For them, history is not remote or distant, but alive and present in their lives and in the national debate. It is also contested.
