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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

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

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

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

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.