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• ‟ Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

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• ‟ Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

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• ‟ I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

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• ‟ The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

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• ‟ Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

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• ‟ At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.

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• ‟ Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

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• ‟ Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

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• ‟ The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

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• ‟ I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.

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• ‟ I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

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• ‟ Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

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