The Past is a Foreign Country

The Past is a Foreign Country may refer to:

• "The past is a foreign country", the opening phrase of The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley, 1953
• The Past is a Foreign Country, a book by David Lowenthal, 1985
• The Past is a Foreign Country (Il passato è una terra straniera), a book by Gianrico Carofiglio, 2004
• The Past Is a Foreign Land, an Italian film of 2008, based on the Carofiglio novel
• The Past is a Foreign Country, a South Korean film of 2008
• ”The past is a foreign country; they eat chips differently there”, from the starting page of Grace Dent’s memoir, “Hungry, a Memoir for Wanting More”, 2020

See also

• The Past is Another Country (disambiguation)