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Michael Windross

Michael Windross was born in Carlisle in 1942. He was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral from 1952 to 1956, and then moved on to Lancing College and St John's College Cambridge, where he read history as well as being a choral scholar. He emigrated to Belgium in 1964 and taught for forty years at the Higher Institute for Translators and Interpreters in Antwerp. He was awarded his PhD by Louvain University in 1988. He has published in the fields of historical linguistics and the history of ideas. Catching up with the Past is his first venture into non-academic writing. He and Elly, his wife, divide their time between Antwerp, Sussex, and Abruzzo in Italy.

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