Arrogance Quote by David Starkey

The Tudors' is terrible history with no point. It's wrong for no purpose.

— David Starkey

It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is…

— Hilary Mantel

“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is particularly true…

— Sharon Kay Penman

'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama…

— Annabelle Wallis

Most of the version of Tudor history we know is through the eyes of Henry VIII.

— Charlotte Hope

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

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

— Damian Lewis

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago…

— Gustave Flaubert

Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to…

— Rick Perlstein

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

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