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  • All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

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    The A J P Taylor (1980). “Politicians, Socialism, and Historians”, H. Hamilton
  • The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

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    A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.38, Oxford Paperbacks
  • Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

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    'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10
  • History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

  • History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

  • Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

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  • If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

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  • History is the great propagator of doubt.

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  • Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

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A. J. P. Taylor

  • Born: March 25, 1906
  • Died: September 7, 1990
  • Occupation: Historian