This is true. Many people have a vested interest in making information disappear. I grew up in Konstantiniyye –– Constantinople or İstanbul, if you prefer, though who knows what it is called in your time, if she still stands. She has known many rulers, and many tyrants, many of whom have tried to crush the less flattering parts of history. My parents fled when the war started with Venezia in 1498, but I returned alone later to open bookshops and make knowledge accessible in the region. It is inevitable that many will try to stop those books, but for every man trying to remove information, there is another trying to put it there.

My husband and I have both done that work, though in very different ways.