Best Quote by David Olusoga

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…

— John Keegan

What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

— Karl Kraus

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

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I…

— Kevin Young

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

— Claire Tomalin

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

— Samuel Eliot Morison

Leave history to historians.

— Ali Babacan

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it…

— Michel de Montaigne

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go…

— Colin Firth