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In the first of two interviews, Christina Wright describes her childhood in Rawmarsh, a small town in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and her early interest in history, which had its roots in her Yorkshire upbringing but took on focus and direction during her years at Lancaster University, where she was a student of Jeffrey Richards, noted British cultural historian. She tells of her move to the United States in the 1980s and the process of acclimating to a new culture as an expat, first in San Francisco and then in Charlotte, North Carolina. Later in the interview, she describes how her work with Tom Morrill and Mary Beth Gatza on a project with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historical Landmarks Commission initiated a long period of involvement with Charlotte history, most notably as an oral historian in Special Collections and University Archives at Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.