摘要：Fans of L.P. Hartley might recognize that the title of my article is taken from the famous opening line of ‘The Go-Between’, published in 1953. I chose this because the line ‘The past is a foreign country: they do thingsdifferently there’ (1) feels like an accurate description of how much both my role, and the work of my team, havechanged in my time at LSE. So much so that the past really does look like a foreign country, and our work nowlooks quite different from how it did in December 2005 when I took up my post here.
