It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case.… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable” — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
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