This conference was very successful. Years later, those sixth formers were still saying to me that this was a major event in their education; because it was the first time that they had genuinely understood all of those connections; that science affected poetry; that music reflected history. In other words, cross-curricularity actually meant something. Of course, it was well-planned and the speakers well-chosen; but it worked because it had a clear and well-chosen focus. It ranged widely across many subject disciplines but it never lost its centre, and so the comparisons and the enrichment were irresistible.