1960s Quote by Robert Darnton

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

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But…

— Robert Darnton

“Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE”

— Fela Durotoye

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

— Tom Mison

“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself…

— James Henry Breasted

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply.…

— Simon Jenkins