Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to inter… - G. M. Trevelyan
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to inter…
- G. M. Trevelyan
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative po… - G. M. Trevelyan
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative po…
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, … - G. M. Trevelyan
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, …
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interestin… - G. M. Trevelyan
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interestin…
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right. - G. M. Trevelyan
There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good … - G. M. Trevelyan
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good …
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. - G. M. Trevelyan
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
One half who graduate from college never read another book. - G. M. Trevelyan
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstance… - G. M. Trevelyan
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstance…
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