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Is the Marie Kondo trend removing you from history?
Sarah Gristwood is worried that the vogue for tidying will make history harder to uncover. Sarah is an historian herself, and in writing her books has relied heavily on documents which might easily have been discarded. But that's not all: she wonders, too, how her successors will access our digital clutter in 500 years' time.
First broadcast on Four Thought, 11 January 2020.
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