British Quote by Linda Colley

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

There is no history, only histories.

— Karl Popper

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

— Salman Rushdie

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

— Lytton Strachey

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

History provides no precise guidelines.

— Douglas Hurd

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account…

— Denise Lewis

Freedom has no history.

— Andrew Cohen

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

— Agatha Christie