British history Quote by Simon Schama

More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again,…

— David Cannadine

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the…

— David Cannadine

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…

— Tony Benn

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

— L. Neil Smith

“People expected too much, pushed themselves too hard, and therefore brought strains upon their minds that they were constitutionally incapable of withstanding.”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

— Dylan Moran

The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political…

— Simon Schama

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England…

— Simon Schama

To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion…

— Simon Schama

Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the…

— Simon Schama

These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party…

— Simon Schama