History
The history of English nationalism is a contested area of scholarship. The historian Adrian Hastings has written that: "One can find historians to date 'the dawn of English national consciousness' (or some such phrase) in almost every century from the eighth to the nineteenth".
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“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
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“The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)