As someone who wrecked most of his middle years researching a PhD—[Interruption.] No, it was not on the French revolution. The period that I studied was 1937–57. It was very recent, but what I read probably bore little relationship to what actually occurred because I used official sources almost entirely. At their raciest, the official sources of the future might include the Hansards of this Committee, but there will be no mention of the bloodletting that may have occurred when my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich pulled the Bill together.

I entirely understand what my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Mr. Bryant) says. The issue will be difficult and we shall probably have debates about how to select the material because there has never been so much available. I dare say that some is trivial, but some is important. A researcher might be studying something that looks trivial now, but in 100 years, it might hold the key to understanding what this period is all about.