Academic Quote by Adam Hochschild

The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes, is not…

— Michael Korda

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's…

— Linda Colley

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

— Ferdinand Marcos

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early…

— Robert Darnton

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no…

— Peter Ackroyd

History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something…

— Margaret MacMillan

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

— Hilary Mantel

Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

— David Starkey

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

— Wallace Stegner

Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as ours. But…

— Michael Portillo