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“This is a natural outgrowth of this earlier forging of a much closer alliance between the civil rights movement and labor,” said Dickerson, the former historiographer for the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Today, and most likely forever, we can leave questions regarding Wallingford’s borders to the new core of enthused historiographers called Historic Wallingford.

Into that circle now steps Lepore, a professor of history at Harvard who, since 1999, has written for the New Yorker as a kind of unofficial national historiographer.

Yet virtually all pop historiographers elevate the importance of the Pistols above that of the Bee Gees.

“The more recent waves of historiographers would point out that this is the heart of the empire and echoes the diversity of the empire in a bustling metropolis,” she says.