“One has to put aside the popular notion that language and culture are endlessly passed on from generation to generation, rather as… — 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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