Best quotes by Norman Davies on History

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• ‟ Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

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• ‟ Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering, one might think that the historians could have arrived at a consensus for interpreting the main events of the war. In reality, no such consensus exists.

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• ‟ It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.

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• ‟ I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

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• ‟ I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.

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• ‟ History is very much bound up in family experience.

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• ‟ History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.

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• ‟ Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.

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• ‟ Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

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• ‟ There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything.

  - Norman Davies