Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch,… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
