About Quote by Lucy Worsley

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

— Ron Chernow

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

— Adele Logan Alexander

Leave history to historians.

— Ali Babacan

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

— John Ashbery

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep…

— Terry Pratchett

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

— David Herbert Donald

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein

There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.

— Jay Blades

Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and…

— David Olusoga