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“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way of thinking history and memory are correlative. That is, without hi...”
“History is about longing and belonging. It is about the need for permanence and the perception of continuity. It concerns the atavistic desire to find deep sources of identity. We live again in the...”
“Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.”
“The days are numbered for those bums over in England."German Tank commander”