British - Historian | June 8, 1939 -
Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
Norman Davies
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It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
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The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.
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The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts.
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Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.
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There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
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The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.
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It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.
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I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.
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I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
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History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.
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