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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“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn’t fair.”
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“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.”
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