Historian Quote by Ronald Syme Download Open image “Women have their uses for historians.” — Ronald Syme ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Use
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“History may well be a series of stories we tell about the past, but the stories are not just any stories. They're not chosen… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in… — Toshiko Kishida Copy Share Image
There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I see it as my job to try to make history to be a popular thing. The longer I keep going the less weird… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
“Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery. — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born. — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
“A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open… — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income. — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
