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History is the best guide to the future.

At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

I love anything to do with history.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.