“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
“Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.” — Justin Allison 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
“Even though it is black, black as Egypt’s night, the customer is always right” — Andrew Ewing Copy Share Image
“What a phoney sense of belonging all this is, this which is offered by the public pals of this publicly gregarious age;… — Richard Hoggart Copy Share Image
Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the… — Peter Earle Copy Share Image
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our… — Louis Dupré Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
“To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It was to be the longest flight I had ever made in my young life and one of the most interesting. Having… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political… — F. M. Powicke Copy Share Image
“Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the… — Susannah Mansfield Copy Share Image
