Historians
- William Camden (1551–1623)
- Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
- Sir Peter Leycester (1614–78), historian and antiquarian
- George Ormerod (1785–1873), historian and antiquary
- John Speed (1542–1629), historian and cartographer
- A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) popular historian
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“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)