About Quote by Michael Apted

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

“year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English…

— Charles Dickens

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

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

— Wallace Stegner

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the…

— Adam Hochschild

“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to…

— Charles Dickens

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's…

— Linda Colley

Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as ours. But…

— Michael Portillo

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

— Barbara Holland

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

— Dave Barry

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

— William Shakespeare

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