Days Quote by David Olusoga

History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and…

— David Olusoga

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

— David Christian

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change…

— Frank Herbert

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is…

— George Santayana

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

— Anselm Kiefer

Lots of historians are sniffy about re-enactors.

— Lucy Worsley

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.

— Raja Ravi Varma

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may…

— Oscar Wilde

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made…

— Deborah Levy