"If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actual..."
- Alex Morritt
"Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men."
- Ælfrēd of Wessex
"Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way of thinking history and memory are correlative. That is, without histo..."
- Russell A. Peck
"History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. We live again in the tw..."
- Peter Ackroyd
"Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them."
- Alison Weir
"The days are numbered for those bums over in England."German Tank commander"
- Leo McKinstry