“I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early” — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The one cheering aspect of 'Daughters of Britannia' is the extraordinary tenacity and resilience of Hickman's women. — Amanda Foreman Children Copy Share Image
We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting. — Amanda Foreman Feminism Copy Share Image
Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“His (Grant's) face has three expressions: deep thought, extreme determination, and great simplicity and calmness.” — Amanda Foreman Calmness Copy Share Image
For a country that makes such a fuss about love on the 14th of February, America has a funny way of showing… — Amanda Foreman America Copy Share Image
There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get… — Amanda Foreman Children Copy Share Image
Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty… — Amanda Foreman Duty Copy Share Image
For America, Britain has never been more than a strategic player, and when it suits them to use us, then there's been… — Amanda Foreman America Copy Share Image
I go into the local chemist, and I can hear people saying, 'Oh my Gaaahd - it's Lisa Kudrow!' And there's a… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia… — Amanda Foreman Beginning Copy Share Image
For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had… — Amanda Foreman America Copy Share Image
Every now and then, a writer emerges who just gets better and better. These are the really exciting ones to encounter. Their… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started… — Amanda Foreman Dawn Copy Share Image
From Lady Carlisle's trip to Moscow in 1663 to Veronica Atkinson's tour of duty during the 1989 Romanian revolution, it is clear… — Amanda Foreman Duty Copy Share Image
For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve… — Amanda Foreman Ambition Copy Share Image
Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy.… — Amanda Foreman British Copy Share Image
Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into… — Amanda Foreman April Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display… — Amanda Foreman Men Copy Share Image
'The Marriage of Souls', like 'The Rationalist', is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale.… — Amanda Foreman Exploration Copy Share Image
A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families… — Amanda Foreman England Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality. — Amanda Foreman British Copy Share Image
When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that… — Amanda Foreman Books Copy Share Image
I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine. — Amanda Foreman Child Copy Share Image
We moved around so much when I was young. I was very shy, so shy that I would walk across the street… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The historian Linda Colley has analysed how and why George III transformed himself from being a figure of 'perfect hatred' to the… — Amanda Foreman Country Copy Share Image
With a good education and a solid childhood, Marie-Antoinette might have become one of the most admired women in Europe. As it… — Amanda Foreman Children Copy Share Image
As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good… — Amanda Foreman Acting Copy Share Image
Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an… — Amanda Foreman Beauty Copy Share Image
